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Ukraine - Communications (Facts) |
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Telephones - main lines in use: |
12.341 million (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular: |
49.076 million (2006) |
Telephone system: |
general assessment: Ukraine's 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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