Turkmenistan Telecommunications Profile 2002

Telephones - main lines in use

363,000 (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular

4,300 (1998)

Telephone system

general assessment: poorly developed
domestic: NA
international: linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; a new telephone link from Ashgabat to Iran has been established; a new exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey via Intelsat; satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 Intelsat

Radios

1.225 million (1997)

Radio broadcast stations

AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 2 (1998)

Televisions

820,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

3 (much programming relayed from Russia and Turkey) (1997)

Internet country code

.tm

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

NA

Internet users

2,000 (2000)