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Cyprus Telecommunications
Telecommunications in the Republic of Cyprus were
excellent. In
1990 the island had 210,000 telephones, or 30 per 100
population.
All telephones were connected to automatic exchanges, and
international direct dialing was available throughout the
island.
International facsimile (fax), data transmission, and
telex
services were also available. The domestic transmission
system
consisted of a mix of coaxial cables and analog radio
links, along
with the latest technologies of digital radio-relay and
fiber
optics cables. There were 234,000 television sets (color
and black
and white) in the nation at the beginning of the 1990s.
The state
Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation had two radio stations and
one
television station. There was also a private radio
station, and, in
addition, the British forces had both radio and television
broadcasting facilities. International communications were
via
three submarine cables, two to Europe and one to Lebanon;
tropospheric-scatter radio links to Greece and Turkey; and
three
satellite ground stations, two working with the
International
Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat)
Atlantic Ocean
and Indian Ocean satellites and the third linked to the
European
Telecommunications Satellite Organisation (Eutelsat)
system.
Data as of January 1991
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