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Telephones -
main lines in use | 495,000 (2006) | | Telephones -
mobile cellular | 52,000 (2004) | | | Telephone system | general assessment: poorly developed
domestic: Turkmenistan's telecommunications network remains woefully underdeveloped; Turkmentelekom, in cooperation with foreign investors, is planning to upgrade the country's 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 users | 36,000 (2005) | |
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