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Lithuania - Communications (Facts)

Telephones - main lines in use: 792,400 (2006) Telephones - mobile cellular: 4.718 million (2006) Telephone system: general assessment: inadequate, but is being modernized to provide an improved international capability and better residential access domestic: a national, fiber-optic cable, interurban, trunk system is nearing completion; rural exchanges are being improved and expanded; mobile cellular systems are being installed; access to the Internet is available; still many unsatisfied telephone subscriber applications international: country code - 370; landline connections to Latvia and Poland; major international connections to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite Radio broadcast stations: AM 29, FM 142, shortwave 1 (2001) Television broadcast stations: 27 (may have as many as 100 transmitters, including repeater stations) (2001) Internet country code: .lt Internet hosts: 148,675 (2006) Internet users: 1.083 million (2006)