Telefonos - lineas en uso: 3.1 million (1998)

Telefonos - celulares: 1 million
note: in 1998, the government contracted for the installation of 575,000 additional Group Speciale Mobile (GSM) cellular telephone lines over 15 months to raise the total number of subscribers to more than one million; Riyadh planned to further expand the GSM system in 1999 by adding an additional one million lines (1998)

Sistema telefónico: modern system
domestic: extensive microwave radio relay and coaxial and fiber-optic cable systems
international: microwave radio relay to Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Yemen, and Sudan; coaxial cable to Kuwait and Jordan; submarine cable to Djibouti, Egypt and Bahrain; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (3 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region)

Estaciones de Radio: AM 43, FM 31, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios: 6.25 million (1997)

Estaciones de Televisión: 117 (1997)

Televisiones: 5.1 million (1997)

Proveedores de servicio de Internet: 6 (1999)