Country ranking for field: telephone system domestic 2002

Other rankings:

	World	NA
1	Slovenia	100
2	Romania	90% of telephone network is automatic; trunk network is mostly microwave radio relay with some fiber-optic cable; about one-third of exchange capacity is digital; roughly 3300 villages have no service
3	Czech Republic	86% of exchanges now digital; existing copper subscriber systems now being enhanced with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
4	Johnston Atoll	60-channel submarine cable
5	Afghanistan	in 1997 telecommunications links were established between Mazar-e Sharif Herat Kandahar Jalalabad and Kabul through satellite and microwave systems
6	Paraguay	fair microwave radio relay network
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	Norway has a domestic satellite system; moreover the prevalence of rural areas encourages the wide use of cellular mobile systems instead of fixed wire systems
12	Oman	open wire microwave radiotelephone communications and a domestic satellite system with 8 earth stations
13	Pakistan	microwave radio relay coaxial cable fiber-optic cable cellular and satellite networks
14	Palau	NA
15	Panama	NA
16	Papua New Guinea	mostly radiotelephone
17	Pitcairn Islands	party line service only
18	Peru	nationwide microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations
19	Philippines	domestic satellite system with 11 earth stations
20	Niger	wire radiotelephone communications and microwave radio relay; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations and 1 planned
21	Poland	cable open wire and microwave radio relay; 3 cellular networks; local exchanges 56	.6% digital
22	Portugal	integrated network of coaxial cables open wire microwave radio relay and domestic satellite earth stations
23	Puerto Rico	digital telephone system; cellular telephone service
24	Qatar	NA
25	Russia	cross-country digital trunk lines run from Saint 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cellular services both analog and digital are available in many areas; in rural areas the telephone services are still outdated inadequate and low density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 and recently by cellular telephone service; much of the network depends on wire and HF radiotelephone
27	Réunion	modern open wire and microwave radio relay network
28	Saint Helena	automatic network
29	Saint Kitts and Nevis	interisland links to Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Martin
30	Nigeria	intercity traffic is carried by coaxial cable microwave radio relay a domestic communications satellite system with 19 earth stations and a coastal submarine cable; mobile cellular facilities and the Internet are available
31	Nicaragua	low-capacity microwave radio relay and wire system being expanded; connected to Central American Microwave System
32	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	islandwide fully automatic telephone system; VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to the other islands of the Grenadines
33	Mayotte	NA
34	Macau	NA
35	Macedonia	NA
36	Madagascar	open-wire lines coaxial cables microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter links connect regions
37	Malawi	system employs open-wire lines microwave radio relay links and radiotelephone communications stations
38	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
39	Maldives	interatoll communication through microwave links; all inhabited islands are connected with telephone and fax service
40	Mali	network consists of microwave radio relay open wire and radiotelephone communications stations; expansion of microwave radio relay in progress
41	Malta	submarine cable and microwave radio relay between islands
42	Marshall Islands	Majuro Atoll and Ebeye and Kwajalein islands have regular seven-digit direct-dial telephones; other islands interconnected by shortwave radiotelephone
43	Martinique	NA
44	Mauritania	mostly cable and open-wire lines; a recently completed domestic satellite telecommunications system links Nouakchott with regional capitals
45	Mauritius	primarily microwave radio relay trunk system
46	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; considerable use of fiber-optic cable coaxial cable and mobile cellular service
47	New Zealand	NA
48	Moldova	new subscribers face long wait for service; mobile cellular telephone service being introduced
49	Monaco	NA
50	Mongolia	NA
51	Montserrat	NA
52	Morocco	good system composed of open-wire lines cables and microwave radio relay links; Internet available but expensive; principal switching centers are Casablanca and Rabat; national network nearly 100% digital using fiber-optic links; improved rural service employs microwave radio relay
53	Mozambique	the system consists of open-wire lines and trunk connection by microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
54	Myanmar	NA
55	Namibia	good urban services; fair rural service; microwave radio relay links major towns; connections to other populated places are by open wire; 100% digital
56	Nauru	NA
57	Nepal	NA
58	Netherlands Antilles	extensive interisland microwave radio relay links
59	New Caledonia	NA
60	Saint Lucia	system is automatically switched
61	Samoa	NA
62	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	NA
63	United Arab Emirates	microwave radio relay fiber optic and coaxial cable
64	Togo	microwave radio relay and open-wire lines for conventional system; cellular system has capacity of 10000 telephones
65	Tokelau	radiotelephone service between islands
66	Tonga	NA
67	Trinidad and Tobago	NA
68	Tunisia	trunk facilities consist of open-wire lines coaxial cable and microwave radio relay
69	Turkey	additional digital exchanges are permitting a rapid increase in subscribers; the construction of a network of technologically advanced intercity trunk lines using both fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay is facilitating communication between urban centers; remote areas are reached by a domestic satellite system; the number of subscribers to mobile cellular telephone service is growing rapidly
70	Turkmenistan	NA
71	Turks and Caicos Islands	NA
72	Tuvalu	radiotelephone communications between islands
73	U.S. Virgin Islands	modern uses fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
74	Uganda	intercity traffic by wire microwave radio relay and radiotelephone communication stations fixed and mobile cellular systems for short range traffic
75	Ukraine	0
76	United Kingdom	equal mix of buried cables microwave radio relay and fiber-optic systems
77	The Gambia	adequate network of microwave radio relay and open wire
78	United States	a large system of fiber-optic cable microwave radio relay coaxial cable and domestic satellites carries every form of telephone traffic; a rapidly growing cellular system carries mobile telephone traffic throughout the country
79	Uruguay	most modern facilities concentrated in Montevideo; new nationwide microwave radio relay network
80	Uzbekistan	the domestic telephone system is being expanded and technologically improved particularly in Tashkent and Samarqand under contracts with prominent companies in industrialized countries; moreover by 1998 six cellular networks had been placed in operation - four of the GSM type
81	Vanuatu	NA
82	Venezuela	domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations; recent substantial improvement in telephone service in rural areas; substantial increase in digitalization of exchanges and trunk lines; installation of a national interurban fiber-optic network capable of digital multimedia services
83	Vietnam	all provincial exchanges are digitalized and connected to Hanoi Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City by fiber-optic cable or microwave radio relay networks; since 1991 main lines in use have been substantially increased and the use of mobile telephones is growing rapidly
84	Wake Island	NA
85	Wallis and Futuna	NA
86	West Bank	NA
87	Western Sahara	NA
88	Yemen	the national network consists of microwave radio relay cable tropospheric scatter and GSM cellular mobile telephone systems
89	Zambia	high-capacity microwave radio relay connects most larger towns and cities; several cellular telephone services in operation; Internet service is widely available; very small aperture terminal
90	The Netherlands	the existing system of multi-conductor cables is gradually being replaced by fiber-optic cables; the density of cellular telephone traffic is rapidly increasing and further modernization of the system is expected in 2001 with the introduction of the third generation of the Global System for Mobile Communications
91	The Bahamas	totally automatic system; highly developed
92	Lithuania	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
93	South Korea	NA
94	San Marino	automatic telephone system completely integrated into Italian system
95	Saudi Arabia	extensive microwave radio relay coaxial cable and fiber-optic cable systems
96	Senegal	above-average urban system; microwave radio relay coaxial cable and fiber-optic cable in trunk system
97	Serbia and Montenegro	NA
98	Seychelles	radiotelephone communications between islands in the archipelago
99	Sierra Leone	The national microwave radio relay trunk system connects Freetown to Bo and Kenema
100	Singapore	excellent domestic facilities
101	Slovakia	predominantly an analog system that is now receiving digital equipment and is being enlarged with fiber-optic cable especially in the larger cities; mobile cellular capability has been added
102	Solomon Islands	NA
103	Somalia	local cellular telephone systems have been established in Mogadishu and in several other population centers
104	South Africa	consists of carrier-equipped open-wire lines coaxial cables microwave radio relay links fiber-optic cable radiotelephone communication stations and wireless local loops; key centers are Bloemfontein Cape Town Durban Johannesburg Port Elizabeth and Pretoria
105	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	NA
106	Spain	NA
107	Thailand	microwave radio relay and multichannel cable; domestic satellite system being developed
108	Sri Lanka	national trunk network consists mostly of digital microwave radio relay; fiber-optic links now in use in Colombo area and two fixed wireless local loops have been installed; competition is strong in mobile cellular systems; telephone density remains low at 2	.6 main lines per 100 persons
109	Sudan	consists of microwave radio relay cable radiotelephone communications tropospheric scatter and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations
110	Suriname	microwave radio relay network
111	Svalbard	local telephone service
112	Swaziland	system consists of carrier-equipped open-wire lines and low-capacity microwave radio relay
113	Sweden	coaxial and multiconductor cables carry most of the voice traffic; parallel microwave radio relay systems carry some additional telephone channels
114	Switzerland	extensive cable and microwave radio relay networks
115	Syria	coaxial cable and microwave radio relay network
116	São Tomé and Príncipe	minimal system
117	Taiwan	thoroughly modern; completely digitalized
118	Tajikistan	cable and microwave radio relay
119	Tanzania	trunk service provided by open wire microwave radio relay tropospheric scatter and fiber-optic cable; some links being made digital
120	Luxembourg	nationwide cellular telephone system; buried cable
121	Libya	microwave radio relay coaxial cable cellular tropospheric scatter and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations
122	Liechtenstein	NA
123	Cocos Islands	NA
124	Burkina Faso	microwave radio relay open wire and radiotelephone communication stations
125	Burundi	sparse system of open wire radiotelephone communications and low-capacity microwave radio relay
126	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 is scheduled for completion in 2003
127	Cambodia	NA
128	Cameroon	cable microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
129	Canada	domestic satellite system with about 300 earth stations
130	Cayman Islands	NA
131	Central African Republic	network consists principally of microwave radio relay and low-capacity low-powered radiotelephone communication
132	Chad	fair system of radiotelephone communication stations
133	Chile	extensive microwave radio relay links; domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations
134	China	interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place
135	Christmas Island	only analog mobile telephone service is available
136	Colombia	nationwide microwave radio relay system; domestic satellite system with 41 earth stations; fiber-optic network linking 50 cities
137	Brunei	every service available
138	Comoros	HF radiotelephone communications and microwave radio relay
139	Congo	primary network consists of microwave radio relay and coaxial cable
140	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
141	Costa Rica	point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave fiber-optic and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is available
142	Croatia	reconstruction plan calls for replacement of all analog circuits with digital and enlarging the network; a backup will be included in the plan for the main trunk
143	Cuba	principal trunk system end to end of country is coaxial cable; fiber-optic distribution in Havana and on Isla de la Juventud; 2 microwave radio relay installations
144	Cyprus	open wire fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
145	Côte d'Ivoire	open-wire lines and microwave radio relay; 90% digitalized
146	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
147	Denmark	buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form trunk network 4 cellular mobile communications systems
148	Djibouti	microwave radio relay network
149	Dominica	fully automatic network
150	Bulgaria	more than two-thirds of the lines are residential; telephone service is available in most villages; a fairly modern digital cable trunk line now connects switching centers in most of the regions the others are connected by digital microwave radio relay
151	British Virgin Islands	NA
152	Ecuador	facilities generally inadequate and unreliable
153	Azerbaijan	the majority of telephones are in Baku and other industrial centers - about 700 villages still without public telephone service; satellite service connects Baku to a modern switch in its exclave of Naxcivan
154	Algeria	good service in north but sparse in south; domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations
155	American Samoa	good telex telegraph facsimile and cellular telephone services; domestic satellite system with 1 Comsat earth station
156	Andorra	modern system with microwave radio relay connections between exchanges
157	Angola	limited system of wire microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
158	Anguilla	modern internal telephone system
159	Antarctica	NA
160	Antigua and Barbuda	good automatic telephone system
161	Argentina	microwave radio relay fiber-optic cable and a domestic satellite system with 40 earth stations serve the trunk network; more than 110000 pay telephones are installed and mobile telephone use is rapidly expanding
162	Armenia	the majority of subscribers and the most modern equipment are in Yerevan
163	Aruba	more than adequate
164	Australia	domestic satellite system; much use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density; rapid growth of mobile cellular telephones
165	Austria	there are 48 main lines for every 100 persons; the fiber optic net is very extensive; all telephone applications and Internet services are available
166	Bahrain	modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network with rapidly growing use of mobile cellular telephones
167	British Indian Ocean Territory	all commercial telephone services are available including connection to the Internet
168	Bangladesh	modernizing; introducing digital systems; trunk systems include VHF and UHF microwave radio relay links and some fiber-optic cable in cities
169	Barbados	island-wide automatic telephone system
170	Belarus	local - Minsk has a digital metropolitan network and a cellular NMT-450 network; waiting lists for telephones are long; local service outside Minsk is neglected and poor; intercity - Belarus has a partly developed fiber-optic backbone system presently serving at least 13 major cities
171	Belgium	nationwide cellular telephone system; extensive cable network; limited microwave radio relay network
172	Belize	trunk network depends primarily on microwave radio relay
173	Benin	fair system of open wire microwave radio relay and cellular connections
174	Bermuda	modern fully automatic telephone system
175	Bhutan	domestic telephone service is very poor with few telephones in use
176	Bolivia	primary trunk system which is being expanded employs digital microwave radio relay; some areas are served by fiber-optic cable; mobile cellular systems are being expanded
177	Bosnia and Herzegovina	NA
178	Botswana	small system of open-wire lines microwave radio relay links and a few radiotelephone communication stations; mobile cellular service is growing fast
179	Brazil	extensive microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 64 earth stations
180	Dominican Republic	relatively efficient system based on islandwide microwave radio relay network
181	Egypt	principal centers at Alexandria Cairo Al Mansurah Ismailia Suez and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay
182	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
183	Jamaica	NA
184	Honduras	NA
185	Hong Kong	microwave radio relay links and extensive fiber-optic network
186	Hungary	the system is digitalized and highly automated; trunk services are carried by fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay; a program for fiber-optic subscriber connections was initiated in 1996; heavy use is made of mobile cellular telephones
187	Iceland	the trunk network consists of coaxial and fiber-optic cables and microwave radio relay links
188	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 significant trunk capacity has been added in the form of fiber-optic cable and a domestic satellite system with 254 earth stations; mobile cellular service is provided in four metropolitan cities
189	Indonesia	interisland microwave system and HF radio police net; domestic satellite communications system
190	Iran	as a result of heavy investing in the telephone system since 1994 the number of long-distance channels in the microwave radio relay trunk has grown substantially; many villages have been brought into the net; the number of main lines in the urban systems has approximately doubled; and thousands of mobile cellular subscribers are being served; moreover the technical level of the system has been raised by the installation of thousands of digital switches
191	Iraq	the network consists of coaxial cables and microwave radio relay links
192	Ireland	microwave radio relay
193	Isle of Man	landline telefax mobile cellular telephone system
194	Israel	good system of coaxial cable and microwave radio relay; all systems are digital
195	Italy	high-capacity cable and microwave radio relay trunks
196	Japan	high level of modern technology and excellent service of every kind
197	Haiti	coaxial cable and microwave radio relay trunk service
198	Jersey	NA
199	Jordan	microwave radio relay transmission and coaxial and fiber-optic cable are employed on trunk lines; considerable use of mobile cellular systems; Internet service is available
200	Kazakhstan	intercity by landline and microwave radio relay; mobile cellular systems are available in most of Kazakhstan
201	Kenya	trunks are primarily microwave radio relay; business data commonly transferred by a very small aperture terminal
202	Kiribati	NA
203	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
204	Kyrgyzstan	principally microwave radio relay; one cellular provider probably limited to Bishkek region
205	Laos	radiotelephone communications
206	Latvia	expansion underway in intercity trunk line connections rural exchanges and mobile systems; still many unsatisfied subscriber applications
207	Lebanon	primarily microwave radio relay and cable
208	Lesotho	consists of a few landlines a small microwave radio relay system and a minor radiotelephone communication system; a cellular mobile telephone system is growing
209	Liberia	NA
210	Holy See	tied into Italian system
211	Guyana	microwave radio relay network for trunk lines
212	El Salvador	nationwide microwave radio relay system
213	Gabon	adequate system of cable microwave radio relay tropospheric scatter radiotelephone communication stations and a domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations
214	Equatorial Guinea	NA
215	Eritrea	very inadequate; most telephones are in Asmara; government is seeking international tenders to improve the system
216	Estonia	a wide range of high quality voice data and internet services is available throughout the country
217	Ethiopia	open wire; microwave radio relay; radio communication in the HF VHF and UHF frequencies; two domestic satellites provide the national trunk service
218	Falkland Islands	government-operated radiotelephone and private VHF/CB radiotelephone networks provide effective service to almost all points on both islands
219	Faroe Islands	digitalization was completed in 1998; both NMT
220	Federated States of Micronesia	islands interconnected by shortwave radiotelephone
221	Fiji	NA
222	Finland	cable microwave radio relay and an extensive cellular net provide domestic needs
223	France	extensive cable and microwave radio relay; extensive introduction of fiber-optic cable; domestic satellite system
224	French Guiana	fair open wire and microwave radio relay system
225	French Polynesia	NA
226	Gaza Strip	rudimentary telephone services provided by an open wire system
227	Guinea	microwave radio relay and radiotelephone communication
228	Georgia	local - T'bilisi and K'ut'aisi have cellular telephone networks; urban telephone density is about 20 per 100 people; rural telephone density is about 4 per 100 people; intercity facilities include a fiber-optic line between T'bilisi and K'ut'aisi; nationwide pager service is available
229	Germany	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 expanding rapidly and includes roaming service to many foreign countries
230	Ghana	primarily microwave radio relay; wireless local loop has been installed
231	Gibraltar	automatic exchange facilities
232	Greece	microwave radio relay trunk system; extensive open wire connections; submarine cable to offshore islands
233	Greenland	microwave radio relay and satellite
234	Grenada	interisland VHF and UHF radiotelephone links
235	Guadeloupe	NA
236	Guam	modern digital system including cellular mobile service and local access to the Internet
237	Guatemala	NA
238	Guernsey	NA
239	Guinea-Bissau	combination of microwave radio relay open-wire lines radiotelephone and cellular communications
240	Zimbabwe	consists of microwave radio relay links open-wire lines radiotelephone communication stations fixed wireless local loop installations and a substantial mobile cellular network; Internet connection is available in Harare and planned for all major towns and for some of the smaller ones

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