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Introduction - Turkey: | Location - Turkey: | People - Turkey: | Government - Turkey: | Economy - Turkey: | Communications - Turkey: | Fiscal year | calendar year | | Telephones main lines in use | 18.978 million (2005) | | Telephones mobile cellular | 43.609 million (2005) | | 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 3 submarine fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, linking Turkey with Italy, Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia; satellite earth stations - 12 Intelsat; mobile satellite terminals - 328 in the Inmarsat and Eutelsat systems (2002) | | Radio broadcast stations | AM 16, FM 107, shortwave 6 (2001) | | Television broadcast stations | 635 (plus 2,934 repeaters) (1995) | | Internet country code | .tr | | Internet hosts | 1.313 million (2006) | | Internet users | 12.284 million (2006) | |
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This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |