Communications (Oman)
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     Highways:
         26,000 km total; 6,000 km paved, 20,000 km motorable track
     Pipelines:
         crude oil 1,300 km; natural gas 1,030 km
     Ports:
         Mina' Qabus, Mina' Raysut
     Merchant marine:
         1 passenger ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,442 GRT/1,320 DWT
     Civil air:
         19 major transport aircraft
     Airports:
         134 total, 127 usable; 6 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways over
         3,659 m; 8 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 73 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
     Telecommunications:
         fair system of open-wire, microwave, and radio communications stations;
         limited coaxial cable 50,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 2 AM, 3 FM, 7
         TV; satellite earth stations - 2 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 ARABSAT, and 8
         domestic