Turkey Communications:
Telephones — main lines in use:
18,916,700 (2003 est.)
Telephones — mobile cellular:
27,887,500 (2003 est.)
Telephone system:
general assessment:
undergoing rapid modernization and expansion, especially with cellular telephones
domestic:
additional digital exchanges are permitting a rapid increase in subscribers; the construction of a network of technologically advanced intercity trunk lines, using both fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay is facilitating communication between urban centers; remote areas are reached by a domestic satellite system; the number of subscribers to mobile cellular telephone service is growing rapidly
international:
country code - 90; international service is provided by three submarine fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, linking Turkey with Italy, Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia; also by 12 Intelsat earth stations, and by 328 mobile satellite terminals in the Inmarsat and Eutelsat systems (2002)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 16 , FM 107 , shortwave 6 (2001 est.)
Television broadcast stations:
635 (plus 2,934 repeaters) (1995 est.)
Internet country code:
.tr
Internet hosts:
355,215 (2004 est.)
Internet users:
5.5 million (2003 est.)
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