Communications in Estonia
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Telephones - main lines in use: 476,078 (year end 1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 850,000 (year end 2002)
Telephone system:
Foreign investment in the form of joint business ventures greatly improved telephone service. Internet services are available throughout most of the country; there are about 150,000 unfilled subscriber requests. Usually, Estonia is considered to be the most advanced country in terms of communications in Eastern and Central Europe.
domestic:
local - the Ministry of Transport and Communications is expanding cellular telephone services to form rural networks; intercity - highly developed fiber-optic backbone (double loop) system presently serving at least 16 major cities (1998)
international:
Fiber-optic cables to Finland, Sweden, Latvia, and Russia provide worldwide packet switched service. Two international switches are located in Tallinn.
Radio broadcast stations: AM 3 (all AM stations inactive since July 1998), FM 82, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios: 1.01 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 31 (plus five repeaters) (September 1995)
Televisions: 605,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 6 (1999)
Country code: EE
- See also : Estonia