Australia enjoys excellent domestic and international telephone service which has 9.76 million land phones and 21.26 million mobile phones. Domestically, communications capability includes: domestic satellite system; significant use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density and rapid growth of mobile cellular telephones. While internationally, Australia is connected to the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable with links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; the Southern Cross fiber optic submarine cable provides links to New Zealand and the United States; satellite earth stations - 19 (10 Intelsat - 4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean, 2 Inmarsat - Indian and Pacific Ocean regions, 2 Globalstar, 5 other) (2007).

Radio broadcast stations include 262 AM, 345 FM and one shortwave. TV Broadcasting has 104 stations. The internet is lively with 9,458,000 Internet hosts and 11,240,000 Internet users.