China Communications 1996

Telephone system:

20,000,000 telephones (summer 1994); domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed internal system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and most townships; expanding phone lines, interprovincial fiber optic links, satellite communications, cellullar/mobile communications, etc.

local:

intercity:

fiber optic trunk lines, 55 earth stations for domestic satellites

international:

5 INTELSAT earth stations (4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1 INMARSAT earth station; several international fiber optic links to Japan and Hong Kong

Radio:

broadcast stations:

AM 274, FM NA, shortwave 0

radios:

215 million

Television:

broadcast stations:

202 (repeaters 2,050)

televisions:

75 million

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