Turkish Communications, Turkey Communications

Telephones - main lines in use: 18,916,700 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 27,887,500 (2003)

Telephone system: General assessment: undergoing rapid modernization and expansion, especially with cellular telephones domestic: additional digital exchanges are permitting a rapid increase in subscribers; the construction of a network of technologically advanced intercity trunk lines, using both fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay is facilitating communication between urban centers; remote areas are reached by a domestic satellite system; the number of subscribers to mobile cellular telephone service is growing rapidly international: country code - 90; international service is provided by three submarine fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, linking Turkey with Italy, Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia; also by 12 Intelsat earth stations, and by 328 mobile satellite terminals in the Inmarsat and Eutelsat systems (2002)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 16, FM 107, shortwave 6 (2001)

Television broadcast stations: 635 (plus 2,934 repeaters) (1995)

Internet country code: .tr

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 5.5 million (2003)

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