Telephones - main lines in use:
220,000 (2008)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.4 million (2008)

Telephone system:
general assessment: modern system
domestic: modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network with rapidly growing use of mobile-cellular telephones
international: country code - 973; landing point for the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) submarine cable network that provides links to Asia, Middle East, Europe, and US; tropospheric scatter to Qatar and UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth station - 1 (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
4 (1997)

Internet country code:
.bh

Internet hosts:
51,489 (2009)

Internet users:
402,900 (2008)