Short facts about communications in Lithuania

Telephones - main lines in use:

1.048 million (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

297,500 (November 1998)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  inadequate, but is being modernized to provide an improved international capability and better residential access domestic:  a national, fiber-optic cable, interurban, trunk system is nearing completion; rural exchanges are being improved and expanded; mobile cellular systems are being installed; access to the Internet is available; still many unsatisfied telephone subscriber applications international:  landline connections to Latvia and Poland; major international connections to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 3, FM 112, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:

1.9 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

20 (plus 30 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions:

1.7 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.lt

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

14 (2000)

Internet users:

225,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook