word | | Telephone system |
| assessment | Andorra | general assessment: modern automatic telephone system domestic: modern system with microwave radio relay connections between exchanges international: country code - 376; landline circuits to France and Spain |
| assessment | Angola | general assessment: limited system; state-owned telecom had monopoly for fixed-lines until 2005; demand outstripped capacity, prices were high, and services poor; Telecom Namibia, through an Angolan company, became the first ... |
| assessment | Anguilla | general assessment: modern internal telephone system domestic: fixed-line teledensity is roughly 40 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is roughly 160 per 100 persons international: country code - 1-264; landing point for ... |
| assessment | Antarctica | general assessment: local systems at some research stations domestic: commercial cellular networks operating in a small number of locations international: country code - none allocated; via satellite (including mobile Inmarsat and Iridium systems ... |
| assessment | Antigua and Barbuda | general assessment: good automatic telephone system domestic: fixed-line teledensity roughly 50 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is some 190 per 100 persons international: country code - 1-268; landing points for the ... |
| assessment | Argentina | general assessment: the "Telecommunications Liberalization Plan of 1998" opened the telecommunications market to competition and foreign investment encouraging the growth of modern telecommunications technology; fiber-optic cable trunk lines are being installed ... |
| assessment | Armenia | general assessment: telecommunications investments have made major inroads in modernizing and upgrading the outdated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era; now 100% privately owned and undergoing modernization and expansion; mobile-cellular ... |
| assessment | Aruba | general assessment: modern fully automatic telecommunications system domestic: increased competition through privatization; 3 mobile-cellular service providers are now licensed international: country code - 297; landing site for the PAN-AM submarine telecommunications ... |
| assessment | Australia | general assessment: excellent domestic and international service domestic: domestic satellite system; significant use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density; rapid growth of mobile telephones international: country code - 61; landing point ... |
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