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Introduction - Ukraine: | Location - Ukraine: | People - Ukraine: | Government - Ukraine: | Economy - Ukraine: | Communications - Ukraine: | Fiscal year | calendar year | | Telephones main lines in use | 12.341 million (2006) | | Telephones mobile cellular | 49.076 million (2006) | | Telephone system | general assessment: Ukraines 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 rising slowly and the domestic trunk system is being improved; the mobile cellular telephone system is expanding at a high rate
international: country code - 380; 2 new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and 3 Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that 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 | | Radio broadcast stations | 524 (station types NA) (2006) | | Television broadcast stations | 647 (2006) | | Internet country code | .ua | | Internet hosts | 229,110 (2006) | | Internet users | 5.545 million (2006) | |
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