Short facts about communications in Moldavia

Telephones - main lines in use:

627,000 (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

2,200 (1997)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  inadequate, outmoded, poor service outside Chisinau, some effort to modernize is under way domestic:  new subscribers face long wait for service; mobile cellular telephone service being introduced international:  service through Romania and Russia via landline; satellite earth stations - Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 7, FM 50, shortwave 3 (1998)

Radios:

3.22 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

1 (plus 30 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions:

1.26 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.md

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

2 (1999)

Internet users:

15,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook