Germany Communications 1996

Telephone system:

western:

40,300,000 telephones; highly developed, modern telecommunication service to all parts of the country; fully adequate in all respects; intensively developed, highly redundant cable and microwave radio relay networks, all completely automatic

local:

very modern

intercity:

domestic satellite, microwave radio relay, and cable systems

international:

12 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean), 2 INTELSAT (Indian Ocean), and 1 EUTELSAT earth station; 2 HF radiocommunication centers; tropospheric scatter links

eastern:

3,970,000 telephones; badly needs modernization

local:

intercity:

international:

1 INTELSAT earth station and 1 Intersputnik system

Radio:

western:

broadcast stations:

AM 80, FM 470, shortwave 0

radios:

eastern:

broadcast stations:

AM 23, FM 17, shortwave 0

radios:

67 million

Television:

broadcast stations:

246 (repeaters 6,000); note - there are 15 Russian repeaters in eastern Germany

televisions:

25 million in western Germany, 6 million in eastern Germany

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