Telephones - main lines in use:

495,000 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

216,900 (2006)

Telephone system:

general assessment: poorly developed
domestic: Turkmentelekom, in cooperation with foreign investors, is planning to upgrade the country's telephone exchanges and install a new digital switching system; mobile-cellular useage remains limited
international: country code - 993; linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; a new telephone link from Ashgabat to Iran has been established; a new exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey via Intelsat; satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 Intelsat (2006)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 2 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:

4 (government-owned and programmed) (2004)

Internet country code:

.tm

Internet hosts:

97 (2007)

Internet users:

64,800 (2006)