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TurkeyCommunications
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Turkey: Communications
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Telephones - main lines in use: |
18,916,700 (2003) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular: |
27,887,500 (2003) |
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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) |
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Radio broadcast stations: |
AM 16, FM 107, shortwave 6 (2001) |
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Radios: |
11.3 million (1997) |
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Television broadcast stations: |
635 (plus 2,934 repeaters) (1995) |
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Televisions: |
20.9 million (1997) |
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Internet country code: |
.tr |
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Internet hosts: |
355,215 (2004) |
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs): |
50 (2001) |
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Internet users: |
5.5 million (2003) |
More about Turkey:
The World Factbook 2005, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
