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Estonia Communications 1996
about 400,000 telephones; 246 telephones/1,000 persons; telephone system is
antiquated; improvements are being made piecemeal, with emphasis on business
needs and international connections; there are still about 150,000
unfulfilled requests for telephone service
international traffic is carried to the other former USSR republics by land
line or microwave and to other countries partly by leased connection to the
Moscow international gateway switch, and partly by a new Tallinn-Helsinki
fiber optic submarine cable which gives Estonia access to international
circuits everywhere; substantial investment has been made in cellular
systems which are operational throughout Estonia and also Latvia and which
have access to the international packet switched digital network via
Helsinki
AM NA, FM NA, shortwave 0
3; note - provide Estonian programs as well as Moscow Ostenkino's first and
second programs
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