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Belarus Communications 1996
1,849,000 telephones (December 1991); 18 telephones/100 persons; telephone
service inadequate for the purposes of either business or the population;
about 70% of the telephones are in homes; over 750,000 applications from
households for telephones remain unsatisfied (1992); new investment centers
on international connections and business needs; the new BelCel NMT 450
cellular system (a joint venture) is now operating in Minsk
international traffic is carried by the Moscow international gateway switch
and also by 2 satellite earth stations near Minsk - INTELSAT (through
Canada) and EUTELSAT (through the UK)
AM NA, FM NA, shortwave 0
3.14 million (5,615,000 with multiple speaker systems for program diffusion)
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