Country ranking for field: telephone system domestic 1999

Other rankings:

1	The Bahamas	91183
2	Slovenia	70% digital; full digitalization scheduled by 2000
3	Johnston Atoll	60-channel submarine cable 22 DSN circuits by satellite Autodin with standard remote terminal digital telephone switch Military Affiliated Radio System
4	Iran	25 regional telecommunications authorities created in 1996; these authorities are responsible for implementing paging services and cellular systems; microwave radio relay extends throughout the country with the system centered in Tehran; system is moving toward digitization and direct-dial capability; 255 long-distance circuits
5	Afghanistan	very limited telephone and telegraph service; in 1997 telecommunications links were established between Mazar-e Sharif Herat Kandahar Jalalabad and Kabul through satellite and microwave systems
6	Panama	NA
7	Nigeria	intercity traffic is carried by coaxial cable microwave radio relay cellular network and a domestic communications satellite system with 20 earth stations
8	Niue	single-line telephone system connects all villages on island
9	Norfolk Island	NA
10	North Korea	system is being expanded with installation of fiber-optic cable nationwide; access traditionally reserved for official and business subscribers; public access is expected to increase
11	Northern Mariana Islands	NA
12	Norway	NA domestic satellite earth stations
13	Oman	open wire microwave radiotelephone communications and a domestic satellite system with 8 earth stations
14	Pakistan	microwave radio relay coaxial cable fiber-optic cable cellular and satellite
15	Palau	NA
16	Peru	nationwide microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations
17	Papua New Guinea	mostly radiotelephone
18	Paraguay	fair microwave radio relay network
19	Philippines	domestic satellite system with 11 earth stations
20	Pitcairn Islands	NA
21	Poland	cable open wire and microwave radio relay; 3 cellular networks
22	Portugal	generally adequate integrated network of coaxial cables open wire microwave radio relay and domestic satellite earth stations
23	Qatar	NA
24	Romania	poor service; 89% of telephone network is automatic; trunk network is microwave radio relay; roughly 3300 villages with no service
25	Russia	cross country digital trunk lines run from St	. Petersburg to Khabarovsk and from Moscow to Novorossiysk; the telephone systems in 60 regional capitals have modern digital infrastructures; cellular services both analog and digital are available in many areas; in rural areas the telephone services are still outdated inadequate and low density
26	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
27	Saint Helena	automatic network; HF radiotelephone from Saint Helena to Ascension then into worldwide submarine cable and satellite networks
28	Saint Kitts and Nevis	interisland links are handled by VHF/UHF/SHF radiotelephone
29	Niger	wire radiotelephone communications and microwave radio relay; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations and 1 planned
30	New Zealand	NA
31	Nicaragua	wire and microwave radio relay
32	Mayotte	NA
33	Macau	NA
34	Madagascar	open-wire lines coaxial cables microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter links
35	Malawi	fair system of open-wire lines microwave radio relay links and radiotelephone communications stations
36	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
37	Maldives	inter-atoll communication primarily through HF transceivers and VHF/UHF telephones
38	Mali	network consists of microwave radio relay open wire and radiotelephone communications stations; expansion of microwave radio relay in progress
39	Malta	submarine cable and microwave radio relay between islands
40	Marshall Islands	Majuro Atoll and Ebeye and Kwajalein islands have regular seven-digit direct-dial telephones; other islands interconnected by shortwave radiotelephone
41	Martinique	NA
42	Mauritania	mostly cable and open-wire lines; a recently completed domestic satellite telecommunications system links Nouakchott with regional capitals
43	Mauritius	primarily microwave radio relay
44	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
45	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	islandwide fully automatic telephone system; VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to the other islands of the Grenadines
46	Moldova	local_Chisinau has a fiber-optic loop and one cellular GSM provider; the waiting list for telephones is long; local service outside Chisinau is poor; intercity_Moldova's two fiber-optic segments form a synchronous digital hierarchy ring through Romania's system; an analog backbone system runs from south to north in Moldova
47	Monaco	NA
48	Mongolia	NA
49	Montserrat	NA
50	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
51	Mozambique	microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
52	Myanmar	NA
53	Namibia	good urban services; fair rural service; microwave radio relay links major towns; connections to other populated places are by open wire
54	Nauru	NA
55	Nepal	NA
56	New Caledonia	NA
57	Saint Lucia	system is automatically switched
58	San Marino	automatic telephone system completely integrated into Italian system
59	Samoa	NA
60	United Kingdom	equal mix of buried cables microwave radio relay and fiber-optic systems
61	Tonga	NA
62	Trinidad and Tobago	NA
63	Tunisia	trunk facilities consist of open-wire lines coaxial cable and microwave radio relay
64	Turkey	cable; AMPS standard cellular system in Ashkhabad with plans for expansion
65	Turkmenistan	NA
66	Turks and Caicos Islands	NA
67	Tuvalu	radiotelephone communications between islands
68	U.S. Virgin Islands	modern uses fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
69	Uganda	intercity traffic by wire microwave radio relay and radiotelephone communications stations cellular system for short range traffic
70	Ukraine	local_Kiev has a digital loop connected to the national digital backbone; Kiev has several cellular phone companies providing service in the different standards; some companies offer intercity roaming and even limited international roaming; cellular phone service is offered in at least 100 cities nationwide
71	United Arab Emirates	microwave radio relay and coaxial cable
72	United States	a large system of fiber-optic cable microwave radio relay coaxial cable and domestic satellites carries conventional telephone traffic; a rapidly growing cellular system carries mobile telephone traffic throughout country
73	Togo	microwave radio relay and open-wire lines for conventional system; cellular system has capacity of 10000 telephones
74	Uruguay	most modern facilities concentrated in Montevideo; new nationwide microwave radio relay network
75	Uzbekistan	in 1998 there were six cellular networks operating in Uzbekistan; 4 GSM 1 D-AMPS 1 AMPS standard
76	Vanuatu	NA
77	Venezuela	domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations
78	Vietnam	NA
79	Wake Island	NA
80	Wallis and Futuna	NA
81	West Bank	NA
82	Western Sahara	NA
83	Yemen	the network consists of microwave radio relay cable and tropospheric scatter
84	Zambia	high-capacity microwave radio relay connects most larger towns and cities
85	Tokelau	radiotelephone service between islands
86	The Netherlands	nationwide cellular telephone system; microwave radio relay
87	Lithuania	local_three cellular service providers; NMT-450 and GSM standards provide services nationwide; 80% of customers are on the two GSM networks; 157000 cellular customers; intercity_Lithuania is close to completing its fiber-optic backbone consisting of two small rings inside a larger ring
88	Spain	NA
89	Saudi Arabia	extensive microwave radio relay and coaxial and fiber-optic cable systems
90	Senegal	above-average urban system; microwave radio relay coaxial cable and fiber-optic cable in trunk system
91	Serbia and Montenegro	NA
92	Seychelles	radiotelephone communications between islands in the archipelago
93	Sierra Leone	national microwave radio relay system made unserviceable by military activities
94	Singapore	NA
95	Slovakia	NA
96	Solomon Islands	NA
97	Somalia	recently local cellular telephone systems have been established in Mogadishu and in several other population centers
98	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
99	South Korea	NA
100	Sri Lanka	NA
101	The Gambia	adequate network of microwave radio relay and open wire
102	Sudan	consists of microwave radio relay cable radiotelephone communications tropospheric scatter and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations
103	Suriname	microwave radio relay network
104	Svalbard	local telephone service
105	Swaziland	system consists of carrier-equipped open-wire lines and low-capacity microwave radio relay
106	Sweden	coaxial and multiconductor cable carry most voice traffic; parallel microwave radio relay network carries some additional telephone channels
107	Switzerland	extensive cable and microwave radio relay networks
108	Syria	coaxial cable and microwave radio relay network
109	Taiwan	extensive microwave radio relay trunk system on east and west coasts
110	Tajikistan	cable and microwave radio relay
111	Tanzania	open wire microwave radio relay tropospheric scatter
112	Thailand	microwave radio relay and multichannel cable; domestic satellite system being developed
113	Luxembourg	nationwide cellular telephone system; buried cable
114	Libya	microwave radio relay coaxial cable cellular tropospheric scatter and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations
115	Liechtenstein	NA
116	Christmas Island	NA
117	Burkina Faso	microwave radio relay open wire and radiotelephone communication stations
118	Burundi	sparse system of open wire radiotelephone communications and low-capacity microwave radio relay
119	Cabo Verde	interisland microwave radio relay system with both analog and digital exchanges; work is in progress on a submarine fiber-optic cable system which was scheduled for completion in 1998
120	Cambodia	NA
121	Cameroon	cable microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
122	Canada	domestic satellite system with about 300 earth stations
123	Cayman Islands	NA
124	Central African Republic	network consists principally of microwave radio relay and low-capacity low-powered radiotelephone communication
125	Chad	fair system of radiotelephone communication stations
126	Chile	extensive microwave radio relay links; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations
127	China	interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place
128	Cocos Islands	NA
129	Brunei	NA
130	Colombia	nationwide microwave radio relay system; domestic satellite system with 11 earth stations
131	Congo	primary network consists of microwave radio relay and coaxial cable
132	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
133	Costa Rica	NA
134	Croatia	NA
135	Cuba	NA
136	Cyprus	open wire fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
137	Czech Republic	NA
138	Côte d'Ivoire	open-wire lines and microwave radio relay
139	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
140	Denmark	buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form trunk network four cellular radio communications systems
141	Bulgaria	extensive but antiquated transmission system of coaxial cable and microwave radio relay; telephone service is available in most villages
142	British Virgin Islands	NA
143	Dominica	fully automatic network
144	Azerbaijan	local_the majority of telephones are in Baku or other industrial centers; intercity_about 700 villages still do not have public phone service; all long distance service must use Azertel's
145	Algeria	good service in north but sparse in south; domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations
146	American Samoa	good telex telegraph facsimile and cellular phone services; domestic satellite system with 1 Comsat earth station
147	Andorra	modern system with microwave radio relay connections between exchanges
148	Angola	limited system of wire microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
149	Anguilla	modern internal telephone system
150	Antarctica	NA
151	Antigua and Barbuda	good automatic telephone system
152	Argentina	microwave radio relay and a domestic satellite system with 40 earth stations serve the trunk network
153	Armenia	local_350000 telephones are located in Yerevan; a fiber-optic loop provides digital service to 80000 of Yerevan's customers; GSM cellular is available in Yerevan as is paging; intercity_the former Soviet system provides service to 380000 numbers mostly governmental
154	Aruba	more than adequate
155	Australia	domestic satellite system
156	Bahrain	NA
157	British Indian Ocean Territory	NA
158	Bangladesh	poor domestic telephone service
159	Belarus	the new NMT-450 analog cellular system is now operating in Minsk
160	Belgium	nationwide cellular telephone system; extensive cable network; limited microwave radio relay network
161	Belize	trunk network depends primarily on microwave radio relay
162	Benin	fair system of open wire microwave radio relay and cellular connections
163	Bermuda	modern fully automatic telephone system
164	Bhutan	domestic telephone service is very poor with very few telephones in use
165	Bolivia	microwave radio relay system being expanded
166	Bosnia and Herzegovina	NA
167	Botswana	small system of open-wire lines microwave radio relay links and a few radiotelephone communication stations
168	Brazil	extensive microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 64 earth stations
169	Djibouti	microwave radio relay network
170	Dominican Republic	relatively efficient system based on islandwide microwave radio relay network
171	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
172	Japan	NA
173	Hong Kong	microwave radio relay links and extensive fiber-optic network
174	Hungary	microwave radio relay
175	Iceland	the trunk network consists of coaxial and fiber-optic cables and microwave radio relay links
176	India	local service is provided by microwave radio relay and coaxial cable with open wire and obsolete electromechanical and manual switchboard systems still in use in rural areas; starting in the 1980s a substantial amount of digital switch gear has been introduced for local- and long-distance service; long-distance traffic is carried mostly by 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 254 earth stations; cellular telephone service in four metropolitan cities
177	Indonesia	interisland microwave system and HF radio police net; domestic satellite communications system
178	Iraq	the network consists of coaxial cables and microwave radio relay links
179	Ireland	microwave radio relay
180	Isle of Man	NA
181	Israel	good system of coaxial cable and microwave radio relay
182	Italy	high-capacity cable and microwave radio relay trunks
183	Jamaica	NA
184	Jersey	NA
185	Holy See	tied into Italian system
186	Jordan	microwave radio relay coaxial and fiber-optic cable and cellular; Jordan has two cellular telephone providers
187	Kazakhstan	landline and microwave radio relay; AMPS standard cellular systems are available in most of Kazakhstan
188	Kenya	primarily microwave radio relay
189	Kiribati	NA
190	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
191	Kyrgyzstan	principally microwave radio relay; one cellular provider probably only limited to Bishkek region
192	Laos	radiotelephone communications
193	Latvia	local_two cellular service providers; NMT-450 and GSM standards provide service nationwide; over 75% of population covered; intercity_two synchronous digital hierarchy fiber-optic rings form the national backbone; 11 digital switching centers 3 service centers
194	Lebanon	primarily microwave radio relay and cable
195	Lesotho	consists of a few landlines a small microwave radio relay system and a minor radiotelephone communication system
196	Liberia	NA
197	Honduras	NA
198	Haiti	NA
199	Ecuador	facilities generally inadequate and unreliable
200	French Polynesia	NA
201	Egypt	principal centers at Alexandria Cairo Al Mansurah Ismailia Suez and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay
202	El Salvador	nationwide microwave radio relay system
203	Equatorial Guinea	NA
204	Eritrea	very inadequate; about 4 telephones per 100 families most of which are in Asmara; government is seeking international tenders to improve the system
205	Estonia	local_cellular phones services are growing and expanding to develop rural networks under direction of the MOTC; intercity_Estonia has a highly developed fiber-optic backbone
206	Ethiopia	open wire and microwave radio relay
207	Falkland Islands	government-operated radiotelephone and private VHF/CB radiotelephone networks provide effective service to almost all points on both islands
208	Faroe Islands	digitalization was to hve been completed in 1998
209	Fiji	NA
210	Finland	cable microwave radio relay and an extensive cellular net care for domestic needs
211	France	extensive cable and microwave radio relay; extensive introduction of fiber-optic cable; domestic satellite system
212	Gabon	adequate system of cable microwave radio relay tropospheric scatter radiotelephone communication stations and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations
213	Guyana	microwave radio relay network for trunk lines
214	Gaza Strip	NA
215	Georgia	local_T'bilisi and K'ut'aisi have cellular telephone networks with about 10000 customers total; urban areas 20 telephones/100 people; rural areas 4 phones/100 people; intercity_a fiber-optic line connects T'bilisi to K'ut'aisi
216	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 all of the advantages of the national system
217	Ghana	primarily microwave radio relay
218	Gibraltar	automatic exchange facilities
219	Greece	microwave radio relay open wire and submarine cable
220	Grenada	interisland VHF and UHF radiotelephone links
221	Guam	NA
222	Guatemala	NA
223	Guernsey	NA
224	Guinea-Bissau	combination of microwave radio relay open-wire lines radiotelephone and cellular communications
225	Guinea	microwave radio relay and radiotelephone communication
226	Zimbabwe	consists of microwave radio relay links open-wire lines and radiotelephone communication stations

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