<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Australia<nl>Communications</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Railroads:</hi> 40,478 km total; 7,970 km 1.600-meter gauge, 16,201 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 16,307 km 1.067-meter gauge; 183 km dual gauge; 1,130 km electrified; government owned (except for a few hundred kilometers of privately owned track) (1985)
<item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> good international and domestic service; 8.7 million telephones; broadcast stations—258 AM, 67 FM, 134 TV; submarine cables to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia; domestic satellite service; satellite stations—4 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 6 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth stations