Short facts about communications in Kyrgyzstan

Telephones - main lines in use:

351,000 (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

NA

Telephone system:

general assessment:  poorly developed; about 100,000 unsatisfied applications for household telephones domestic:  principally microwave radio relay; one cellular provider, probably limited to Bishkek region international:  connections with other CIS countries by landline or microwave radio relay and with other countries by leased connections with Moscow international gateway switch and by satellite; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik and 1 Intelsat; connected internationally by the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 12 (plus 10 repeater stations), FM 14, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:

520,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

NA (repeater stations throughout the country relay programs from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey) (1997)

Televisions:

210,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.kg

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

NA

Internet users:

10,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook