Kyrgyzstan: Communications

Communications

Kyrgyzstan

Telephones - main lines in use:	351,000 (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	NA
Telephone system:	general assessment: poorly developed; about 100,000 unsatisfied applications for household telephones domestic: principally microwave radio relay; one cellular provider, probably limited to Bishkek region international: connections with other CIS countries by landline or microwave radio relay and with other countries by leased connections with Moscow international gateway switch and by satellite; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik and 1 Intelsat; connected internationally by the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 12 (plus 10 repeater stations), FM 14, shortwave 2 (1998)
Radios:	520,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:	NA (repeater stations throughout the country relay programs from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey) (1997)
Televisions:	210,000 (1997)
Internet country code:	.kg
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	NA
Internet users:	51,600 (2001)