Azerbaijan Communications 1996

Telephone system:

710,000 telephones; 90 telephones/1,000 persons (1991); 202,000 persons waiting for telephone installations (January 1991); domestic telephone service is of poor quality and inadequate

local:

a joint venture to establish a cellular telephone system (Bakcel) in the Baku area is supposed to become operational in 1994

intercity:

international:

connections to other former USSR republics by cable and microwave and to other countries via the Moscow international gateway switch; INTELSAT link installed in late 1992 in Baku with Turkish financial assistance with access to 200 countries through Turkey; since August 1993 an earth station near Baku has provided direct communications with New York through Russia's Stationar-11 satellite

Radio:

broadcast stations:

AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA

radios:

Television:

broadcast stations:

NA; domestic and Russian TV programs are received locally and Turkish and Iranian TV is received from an INTELSAT satellite through a receive-only earth station

televisions:

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