Kazakhstan Communications 1996

Telephone system:

2.2 million telephones; telephone service is poor; about 17 telephones/100 persons in urban areas and 7.6 telephones/100 persons in rural areas; Almaty has 184,000 telephones

local:

intercity:

land line and microwave radio relay

international:

international traffic with other former USSR republics and China carried by landline and microwave, and with other countries by satellite and through 8 international telecommunications circuits at the Moscow international gateway switch; INTELSAT earth station; new satellite earth station established at Almaty with Turkish financial help (December 1992) with 2500 channel band width

Radio:

broadcast stations:

AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA

radios:

4.088 million (with multiple speakers for program diffusion 6,082,000)

Television:

broadcast stations:

Orbita (TV receive only) earth station

televisions:

4.75 million

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