Kazakhstan Communications:
Telephones — main lines in use:
2,081,900 (2002 est.)
Telephones — mobile cellular:
1.03 million (2002 est.)
Telephone system:
general assessment:
service is poor; equipment antiquated
domestic:
intercity by landline and microwave radio relay; mobile cellular systems are available in most of Kazakhstan
international:
country code - 7; international traffic with other former Soviet republics and China carried by landline and microwave radio relay and with other countries by satellite and by the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 60 , FM 17 , shortwave 9 (1998 est.)
Television broadcast stations:
12 (plus nine repeaters) (1998 est.)
Internet country code:
.kz
Internet hosts:
21,984 (2004 est.)
Internet users:
250,000 (2002 est.)
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