Turkmenistan
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Introduction - Turkmenistan: | Location - Turkmenistan: | People - Turkmenistan: | Government - Turkmenistan: | Economy - Turkmenistan: | Communications - Turkmenistan: | Fiscal year | calendar year | | Telephones main lines in use | 495,000 (2006) | | Telephones mobile cellular | 105,000 (2005) | | Telephone system | general assessment: poorly developed
domestic: Turkmenistans telecommunications network remains woefully underdeveloped; Turkmentelekom, in cooperation with foreign investors, is planning to upgrade the countrys telephone exchanges and install a new digital switching system
international: country code - 993; linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; a new telephone link from Ashgabat to Iran has been established; a new exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey via Intelsat; satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 Intelsat (2006) | | Radio broadcast stations | AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 2 (1998) | | Television broadcast stations | 4 (government-owned and programmed) (2004) | | Internet country code | .tm | | Internet hosts | 585 (2006) | | Internet users | 64,800 (2006) | |
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This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |