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Ukraine: Communications
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Telephones - main lines in use:
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9.45 million (April 1999)
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Telephones - mobile cellular:
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236,000 (1998)
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Telephone system:
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general assessment: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan, running through 2005, emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international connections, and the mobile cellular system
domestic: at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair; more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be satisfied; telephone density is now rising slowly and the domestic trunk system is being improved; the mobile cellular telephone system is expanding at a high rate
international: two new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and three Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans-European Lines (TEL) project which connects 18 countries; additional international service is provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and by earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems
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Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 134, FM 289, shortwave 4 (1998)
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Radios:
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45.05 million (1997)
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Television broadcast stations:
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at least 33 (plus 21 repeaters that relay broadcasts from Russia) (1997)
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Televisions:
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18.05 million (1997)
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Internet country code:
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.ua
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
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260 (2001)
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Internet users:
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750,000 (2001)
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