Turkmenistan Communications - 2004

Telephones - main lines in use:
374,000 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
8,200 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: poorly developed
domestic: NA
international: country code - 993; 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

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 2 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (much programming relayed from Russia and Turkey) (1997)

Internet country code:
.tm

Internet hosts:
2,020 (2002)