Communications in Turkmenistan
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Telephones - main lines in use: 320,000 (1995)
Telephones - mobile cellular: NA
Telephone system:
poorly developed
domestic:
NA
international:
linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other Commonwealth of Independent States 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
Radio broadcast stations: AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 2 (1998)
Radios: 1.225 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 4 (3 of them broadcast in turkmen lanuage and one broadcast in 7 languages that are spoken all over turkmenistan) (2004)
Televisions: 820,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): Turkmenistan gained access to the Internet in 1997 through a contract with MCI Communications (later became MCI WorldCom). A small number of independent Internet Service Providers were forced out of business in 2001 when TurkmenTelecom was granted a monopoly over data services. Official estimates in 2001 projected roughly 2000 users online, almost all located is Ashgabat.
Country code (Top level domain): TM
- See also : Turkmenistan