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Azerbaijan Communications:

Telephones — main lines in use:
923,800 (2002 est.)

Telephones — mobile cellular:
870,000 (2002 est.)

Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate; requires considerable expansion and modernization; teledensity of 10 main lines per 100 persons is low (2002)
domestic: the majority of telephones are in Baku and other industrial centers - about 700 villages still without public telephone service; satellite service connects Baku to a modern switch in its exclave of Naxcivan
international: country code - 994; the old Soviet system of cable and microwave is still serviceable; a satellite connection to Turkey enables Baku to reach about 200 additional countries, some of which are directly connected to Baku by satellite providers other than Turkey (1997)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 10 , FM 17 , shortwave 1 (1998 est.)

Television broadcast stations:
2 (1997 est.)

Internet country code:
.az

Internet hosts:
586 (2004 est.)

Internet users:
300,000 million (2002 est.)



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Washington D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 2005
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