Uzbekistan: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 2,507,711 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 9 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 21.783 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 75 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: digital exchanges in large cities and in rural areas domestic: the state-owned telecommunications company, Uzbektelecom, owner of the fixed-line telecommunications system, has used loans from the Japanese government and the China Development Bank to upgrade fixed-line services including conversion to digital exchange international: country code - 998; linked by fiber-optic cable or microwave radio relay with CIS member states and to other countries by leased connection via the Moscow international gateway switch; the country also has a link to the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic (2015) |
Broadcast media | government controls media; 14 state-owned broadcasters - 10 TV and 4 radio - provide service to virtually the entire country; about 20 privately owned TV stations, overseen by local officials, broadcast to local markets; privately owned TV stations are re |
Internet country code | .uz |
Internet users | total: 12.498 million percent of population: 42.8% (July 2015 est.) |