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Azerbaijan Communications 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Azerbaijan Communications 2012
SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 23,

Telephones - main lines in use:
1.5 million (2010)
country comparison to the world: 64
[see also: Telephones - main lines in use country ranks ]

Telephones - mobile cellular:
9.1 million (2010)
country comparison to the world: 75
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks ]

Telephone system:
general assessment: requires considerable expansion and modernization; fixed-line telephony and a broad range of other telecom services are controlled by a state-owned telecommunications monopoly and growth has been stagnant; more competition exists in the mobile-cellular market with four providers in 2009
domestic: teledensity of 17 fixed lines per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity has increased and is rapidly approaching 100 telephones per 100 persons; satellite service connects Baku to a modern switch in its exclave of Nakhchivan
international: country code - 994; the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic link transits Azerbaijan providing international connectivity to neighboring countries; the old Soviet system of cable and microwave is still serviceable; satellite earth stations - 2 (2010)

Broadcast media:
3 state-run and 1 public television channel; 4 domestic commercial TV stations and about 15 regional TV stations; Turkish, Russian, and Iranian TV and radio broadcasts are available, especially in border regions; cable TV services are available in Baku; 1 state-run and 1 public radio network operating; a small number of private commercial radio stations broadcasting; local FM relays of Baku commercial stations are available in many localities; local relays of several international broadcasters had been available until late 2008 when their broadcasts were banned from FM frequencies (2008)

Internet country code:
.az

Internet hosts:
29,968 (2011)
country comparison to the world: 103
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]

Internet users:
2.42 million (2009)
country comparison to the world: 70
[see also: Internet users country ranks ]


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Azerbaijan on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Azerbaijan Communications 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Azerbaijan Communications 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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