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    Iran Communications - 2004

    https://immigration-usa.com/wfb2004/iran/iran_communications.html
    SOURCE: 2004 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

      Telephones - main lines in use:
      12,200,200 (2002)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:
      2.187 million (2002)

      Telephone system:
      general assessment: inadequate but currently being modernized and expanded with the goal of not only improving the efficiency and increasing the volume of the urban service but also bringing telephone service to several thousand villages, not presently connected
      domestic: as a result of heavy investing in the telephone system since 1994, the number of long-distance channels in the microwave radio relay trunk has grown substantially; many villages have been brought into the net; the number of main lines in the urban systems has approximately doubled; and thousands of mobile cellular subscribers are being served; moreover, the technical level of the system has been raised by the installation of thousands of digital switches
      international: country code - 98; HF radio and microwave radio relay to Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Kuwait, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; submarine fiber-optic cable to UAE with access to Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line runs from Azerbaijan through the northern portion of Iran to Turkmenistan with expansion to Georgia and Azerbaijan; satellite earth stations - 9 Intelsat and 4 Inmarsat

      Radio broadcast stations:
      AM 72, FM 5, shortwave 5 (1998)

      Television broadcast stations:
      28 (plus 450 low-power repeaters) (1997)

      Internet country code:
      .ir

      Internet hosts:
      3,491 (2002)

      Internet users:
      3.168 million (2002)


      NOTE: The information regarding Iran on this page is re-published from the 2004 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Iran Communications 2004 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Iran Communications 2004 should be addressed to the CIA.

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