| Communications | Turkmenistan |
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Telephones - main lines in use:
 | 495,000 (2008) |
Telephones - main lines in use density:
 | 102 Telephones - main lines in use per 1000 people |
Telephones - mobile cellular:
 | 810,000 (2008) |
Telephones - mobile cellular - density:
 | 166 mobile cellular telephones in use per 1000 capita |
Telephone system:
 | general assessment: telecommunications network remains underdeveloped and progress toward improvement is slow; strict government control and censorship inhibits liberalization and modernization domestic: Turkmentelekom, in cooperation with foreign partners, has installed high speed fiber-optic lines and has upgraded most of the country's telephone exchanges and switching centers with new digital technology; mobile telephone usage is expanding with Russia's Mobile Telesystems (MTS) the primary service provider international: country code - 993; linked by fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; an exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey via Intelsat; satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 Intelsat (2008) |
Radio broadcast stations:
 | AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 2 (1998) |
Radio broadcast stations AM density:
 | 305,306 people per AM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations FM density:
 | 610,611 people per FM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations shortwave density:
 | 2,442,444 people per shortwave Radio broadcast station |
Television broadcast stations:
 | 4 (government-owned and programmed) (2004) |
Television broadcast stations density:
 | 1,221,222 people per Television broadcast station |
Internet country code:
 | .tm |
Internet hosts:
 | 755 (2009) |
Internet users:
 | 75,000 (2008) |
Internet users - density:
 | 16 internet users per 1000 capita |
Communications - note:
 | void |
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