Turkmenistan: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 648,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 12 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 7.842 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 150 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: telecommunications network is gradually improving domestic: Turkmentelekom, in cooperation with foreign partners, has installed high-speed fiber-optic lines and has upgraded most of the country's telephone exchanges and switching centers with new digital technology; combined fixed-line and mobile teledensity is ab international: country code - 993; linked by fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; an exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey (2015) |
Broadcast media | broadcast media is government controlled and censored; 7 state-owned TV and 4 state-owned radio networks; satellite dishes and programming provide an alternative to the state-run media; officials sometimes limit access to satellite TV by removing satellit (2007) |
Internet country code | .tm |
Internet users | total: 785,000 percent of population: 15% (July 2015 est.) |