Tajikistan: Communications

Communications

Tajikistan

Telephones - main lines in use:	363,000 (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	2,500 (1997)
Telephone system:	general assessment: poorly developed and not well maintained; many towns are not reached by the national network domestic: cable and microwave radio relay international: linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; Dushanbe linked by Intelsat to international gateway switch in Ankara (Turkey); satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 2 Intelsat
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 8, FM 10, shortwave 2 (2002)
Radios:	1.291 million (1991)
Television broadcast stations:	13 (2001)
Televisions:	820,000 (1997)
Internet country code:	.tj
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	4 (2002)
Internet users:	5,000 (2002)