Country ranking for field: telephone system domestic 1997

Other rankings:

1	Johnston Atoll	60
2	Afghanistan	very limited telephone and telegraph service
3	Panama	NA
4	Nicaragua	wire and microwave radio relay
5	Niger	wire radiotelephone communications and microwave radio relay; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations and 1 planned
6	Nigeria	microwave radio relay coaxial cable and 20 domestic satellite earth stations carry intercity traffic
7	Niue	single-line telephone system connects all villages on island
8	Norfolk Island	NA
9	North Korea	NA
10	Northern Mariana Islands	NA
11	Norway	NA domestic satellite earth stations
12	Oman	open wire microwave radiotelephone communications and a domestic satellite system with 8 earth stations
13	Pakistan	microwave radio relay
14	Palau	NA
15	Paracel Islands	NA
16	Papua New Guinea	mostly radiotelephone
17	New Caledonia	NA
18	Paraguay	fair microwave radio relay network
19	Peru	nationwide microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations
20	Philippines	domestic satellite system with 11 earth stations
21	Pitcairn Islands	NA
22	Poland	cable open wire and microwave radio relay
23	Portugal	generally adequate integrated network of coaxial cables open wire microwave radio relay and domestic satellite earth stations
24	Puerto Rico	0
25	Qatar	NA
26	Romania	poor service; 89% of telephone network is automatic; trunk network is microwave radio relay; roughly 3300 villages with no service
27	Russia	NMT-450 analog cellular telephone networks are operational and growing in Moscow and St	. Petersburg; intercity fiber-optic cable installation remains limited
28	Rwanda	the capital Kigali is connected to the centers of the prefectures by microwave radio relay; the remainder of the network depends on wire and HF radiotelephone
29	New Zealand	NA
30	Nepal	NA
31	Saint Kitts and Nevis	interisland links are handled by VHF/UHF/SHF radiotelephone
32	Martinique	NA
33	Liechtenstein	NA
34	Lithuania	an NMT-450 analog cellular telephone network operates in Vilnius and other cities; landlines and microwave radio relay connect switching centers
35	Luxembourg	nationwide cellular telephone system; buried cable
36	Macau	NA
37	Madagascar	open-wire lines coaxial cables microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter links
38	Malawi	fair system of open-wire lines microwave radio relay links and radiotelephone communications stations
39	Malaysia	good intercity service provided on Peninsular Malaysia mainly by microwave radio relay; adequate intercity microwave radio relay network between Sabah and Sarawak via Brunei; domestic satellite system with 2 earth stations
40	Maldives	inter-atoll communication primarily through HF transceivers and VHF/UHF telephones
41	Mali	network consists of microwave radio relay open wire and radiotelephone communications stations; expansion of microwave radio relay in progress
42	Malta	submarine cable and microwave radio relay between islands
43	Marshall Islands	islands interconnected by shortwave radiotelephone
44	Mauritania	mostly cable and open-wire lines
45	Nauru	NA
46	Mauritius	primarily microwave radio relay
47	Mayotte	NA
48	Mexico	adequate telephone service for business and government but the population is poorly served; domestic satellite system with 120 earth stations; extensive microwave radio relay network
49	Midway Islands	NA
50	Moldova	NA
51	Monaco	NA
52	Mongolia	NA
53	Montserrat	NA
54	Morocco	good system composed of open-wire lines cables and microwave radio relay links; principal centers are Casablanca and Rabat; secondary centers are Fes Marrakech Oujda Tangier and Tetouan
55	Mozambique	microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
56	Myanmar	NA
57	Namibia	good urban services; fair rural service; microwave radio relay links major towns; connections to other populated places are by open wire
58	Saint Helena	automatic network; HF radiotelephone to Ascension then into worldwide submarine cable and satellite networks
59	Saint Lucia	system is automatically switched
60	Liberia	NA
61	United Arab Emirates	microwave radio relay and coaxial cable
62	Togo	microwave radio relay and open-wire lines
63	Tokelau	radiotelephone service between islands
64	Tonga	NA
65	Trinidad and Tobago	NA
66	Tunisia	trunk facilities consist of open-wire lines coaxial cable and microwave radio relay
67	Turkey	trunk microwave radio relay network; limited open-wire network
68	Turkmenistan	NA
69	Turks and Caicos Islands	NA
70	Tuvalu	radiotelephone communications between islands
71	U.S. Virgin Islands	modern uses fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
72	Uganda	microwave radio relay and radiotelephone communications stations
73	Ukraine	an NMT-450 analog cellular telephone network operates in Kiev
74	United Kingdom	equal mix of buried cables microwave radio relay and fiber-optic systems
75	The Gambia	adequate network of microwave radio relay and open wire
76	United States	large system of fiber-optic cable microwave radio relay coaxial cable and domestic satellites
77	Uruguay	most modern facilities concentrated in Montevideo; new nationwide microwave radio relay network
78	Uzbekistan	NMT-450 analog cellular network established in Tashkent
79	Vanuatu	NA
80	Venezuela	domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations
81	Vietnam	NA
82	Wake Island	NA
83	Wallis and Futuna	NA
84	West Bank	NA
85	Western Sahara	NA
86	Yemen	the network consists of microwave radio relay cable and tropospheric scatter
87	Zambia	high-capacity microwave radio relay connects most larger towns and cities
88	The Netherlands	nationwide cellular telephone system; microwave radio relay
89	The Bahamas	totally automatic system; highly developed
90	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	islandwide fully automatic telephone system; VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to the other islands of the Grenadines
91	South Korea	NA
92	San Marino	automatic telephone system completely integrated into Italian system
93	Saudi Arabia	extensive microwave radio relay and coaxial and fiber-optic cable systems
94	Senegal	above-average urban system; microwave radio relay coaxial cable and fiber optic cable in trunk system
95	Serbia and Montenegro	NA
96	Seychelles	radiotelephone communications between islands in the archipelago
97	Sierra Leone	national microwave radio relay system made unserviceable by military activities
98	Singapore	NA
99	Slovakia	NA
100	Slovenia	NA
101	Solomon Islands	NA
102	Somalia	recently local cellular telephone systems have been established in Mogadishu and in several other population centers
103	South Africa	consists of carrier-equipped open-wire lines coaxial cables microwave radio relay links fiber-optic cable and radiotelephone communication stations; key centers are Bloemfontein Cape Town Durban Johannesburg Port Elizabeth and Pretoria
104	Spain	NA
105	Thailand	microwave radio relay and multichannel cable; domestic satellite system being developed
106	Spratly Islands	NA
107	Sri Lanka	NA
108	Sudan	consists of microwave radio relay cable radiotelephone communications tropospheric scatter and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations
109	Suriname	microwave radio relay network
110	Svalbard	local telephone service
111	Swaziland	system consists of carrier-equipped open-wire lines and low-capacity microwave radio relay
112	Sweden	coaxial and multiconductor cable carry most voice traffic; parallel microwave radio relay network carries some additional telephone channels
113	Switzerland	extensive cable and microwave radio relay networks
114	Syria	coaxial cable and microwave radio relay network
115	Taiwan	extensive microwave radio relay trunk system on east and west coasts
116	Tajikistan	cable and microwave radio relay
117	Tanzania	open wire microwave radio relay tropospheric scatter
118	Libya	microwave radio relay coaxial cable tropospheric scatter and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations
119	Lesotho	consists of a few landlines a small microwave radio relay system and a minor radiotelephone communication system
120	Albania	obsolete wire system; no longer provides a telephone for every village; in 1992 following the fall of the communist government peasants cut the wire to about 1000 villages and used it to build fences
121	Christmas Island	NA
122	Burkina Faso	microwave radio relay open wire and radiotelephone communication stations
123	Burundi	sparse system of open wire radiotelephone communications and low-capacity microwave radio relay
124	Cabo Verde	interisland microwave radio relay system
125	Cambodia	NA
126	Cameroon	cable microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
127	Canada	domestic satellite system with about 300 earth stations
128	Cayman Islands	NA
129	Central African Republic	network consists principally of microwave radio relay and low-capacity low-powered radiotelephone communication
130	Chad	fair system of radiotelephone communication stations
131	Chile	extensive microwave radio relay links; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations
132	China	0
133	Cocos Islands	NA
134	Brunei	NA
135	Colombia	nationwide microwave radio relay system; domestic satellite system with 11 earth stations
136	Comoros	HF radiotelephone communications and microwave radio relay
137	Congo	primary network consists of microwave radio relay and coaxial cable
138	Cook Islands	the individual islands are connected by a combination of satellite earth stations microwave systems and VHF and HF radiotelephone; within the islands service is provided by small exchanges connected to subscribers by open wire cable and fiber-optic cable
139	Costa Rica	NA
140	Croatia	NA
141	Cuba	NA
142	Cyprus	open wire fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
143	Czech Republic	NA
144	Côte d'Ivoire	open-wire lines and microwave radio relay
145	Democratic Republic of the Congo	barely adequate wire and microwave radio relay service in and between urban areas; domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations
146	Denmark	buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form trunk network four cellular radio communications systems
147	Bulgaria	extensive but antiquated transmission system of coaxial cable and microwave radio relay; telephone service is available in most villages
148	British Virgin Islands	NA
149	Dominica	fully automatic network
150	Azerbaijan	telephone service is of poor quality and inadequate; a joint venture to establish a cellular telephone system in the Baku area is operational
151	Algeria	excellent service in north but sparse in south; domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations
152	American Samoa	good telex telegraph facsimile and cellular phone services; domestic satellite system with 1 Comsat earth station
153	Andorra	modern system with microwave radio relay connections between exchanges
154	Angola	limited system of wire microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
155	Anguilla	modern internal telephone system
156	Antarctica	NA
157	Antigua and Barbuda	good automatic telephone system
158	Argentina	microwave radio relay and a domestic satellite system with 40 earth stations serve the trunk network
159	Armenia	NA
160	Aruba	more than adequate
161	Australia	domestic satellite system
162	Austria	highly developed and efficient
163	Bahrain	NA
164	British Indian Ocean Territory	NA
165	Bangladesh	poor domestic telephone service
166	Barbados	island wide automatic telephone system
167	Belarus	the new NMT-450 analog cellular system is now operating in Minsk
168	Belgium	nationwide cellular telephone system; extensive cable network; limited microwave radio relay network
169	Belize	trunk network depends primarily on microwave radio relay
170	Benin	fair system of open wire and microwave radio relay
171	Bermuda	modern fully automatic telephone system
172	Bhutan	domestic telephone service is very poor with very few telephones in use
173	Bolivia	microwave radio relay system being expanded
174	Bosnia and Herzegovina	NA
175	Botswana	small system of open-wire lines microwave radio relay links and a few radiotelephone communication stations
176	Brazil	extensive microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 64 earth stations
177	Djibouti	microwave radio relay network
178	Dominican Republic	relatively efficient system based on islandwide microwave radio relay network
179	Lebanon	primarily microwave radio relay and cable
180	Israel	good system of coaxial cable and microwave radio relay
181	Holy See	tied into Italian system
182	Honduras	NA
183	Hong Kong	microwave radio relay links and extensive fiber-optic network
184	Hungary	microwave radio relay
185	Iceland	the trunk network consists of coaxial and fiber-optic cables and microwave radio relay links
186	India	local service is provided mostly by open wire and obsolete electromechanical and manual switchboard systems; within the last 10 years a substantial amount of digital switch gear has been introduced for local service; long-distance traffic is carried mostly by open wire coaxial cable and low-capacity microwave radio relay; since 1985 however significant trunk capacity has been added in the form of fiber-optic cable and a domestic satellite system with over 100 earth stations
187	Indonesia	interisland microwave system and HF radio police net; domestic satellite communications system
188	Iran	microwave radio relay extends throughout country; system centered in Tehran
189	Iraq	the network consists of coaxial cables and microwave radio relay links
190	Ireland	microwave radio relay
191	Isle of Man	NA
192	Italy	high-capacity cable and microwave radio relay trunks
193	Guyana	microwave radio relay network for trunk lines
194	Jamaica	NA
195	Jan Mayen	NA
196	Japan	NA
197	Jersey	NA
198	Jordan	microwave radio relay cable and radiotelephone links
199	Kazakhstan	landline and microwave radio relay
200	Kenya	primarily microwave radio relay
201	Kiribati	NA
202	Kuwait	new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay coaxial cable open wire and fiber-optic cable; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait and the country is well supplied with pay telephones
203	Kyrgyzstan	principally microwave radio relay
204	Laos	radiotelephone communications
205	Latvia	an NMT-450 analog cellular telephone network covers 75% of Latvia's population
206	Haiti	NA
207	Guinea	microwave radio relay and radiotelephone communication
208	Ecuador	facilities generally inadequate and unreliable
209	French Polynesia	NA
210	Egypt	principal centers at Alexandria Cairo Al Mansurah Ismailia Suez and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay
211	El Salvador	nationwide microwave radio relay system
212	Equatorial Guinea	NA
213	Eritrea	very inadequate; about 4 telephones per 100 families most of which are in Asmara; government is seeking international tenders to improve the system
214	Estonia	substantial investment has been made in cellular systems which are operational throughout Estonia
215	Ethiopia	open wire and microwave radio relay
216	Falkland Islands	government-operated radiotelephone and private VHF/CB radiotelephone networks provide effective service to almost all points on both islands
217	Faroe Islands	digitalization to be completed in 1998
218	Federated States of Micronesia	islands interconnected by shortwave radiotelephone
219	Fiji	NA
220	Finland	cable and microwave radio relay
221	France	extensive cable and microwave radio relay; extensive introduction of fiber-optic cable; domestic satellite system
222	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	NA
223	Guinea-Bissau	combination of microwave radio relay open-wire lines and radiotelephone communications
224	Gabon	adequate system of cable microwave radio relay tropospheric scatter radiotelephone communication stations and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations
225	Gaza Strip	NA
226	Georgia	NA
227	Germany	the region which was formerly West Germany is served by an extensive system of automatic telephone exchanges connected by modern networks of fiber-optic cable coaxial cable microwave radio relay and a domestic satellite system; cellular telephone service is widely available and includes roaming service to many foreign countries; since the reunification of Germany the telephone system of the eastern region has been upgraded and enjoys many of the advantages of the national system
228	Ghana	primarily microwave radio relay
229	Gibraltar	automatic exchange facilities
230	Greece	microwave radio relay open wire and submarine cable
231	Grenada	interisland VHF and UHF radiotelephone links
232	Guadeloupe	NA
233	Guam	NA
234	Guatemala	NA
235	Guernsey	NA
236	Zimbabwe	consists of microwave radio relay links open-wire lines and radiotelephone communication stations

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