Communications Of Kyrgyzstan

Telephones main lines in use	394,800 (2002)
Telephones mobile cellular	53,100 (2002)
Telephone system	general assessment: poorly developed; about 100,000 unsatisfied applications for household telephones domestic: principally microwave radio relay; one cellular provider, probably limited to Bishkek region international: country code - 996; connections with other CIS countries by landline or microwave radio relay and with other countries by leased connections with Moscow international gateway switch and by satellite; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik and 1 Intelsat; connected internationally by the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line
Radio broadcast stations	AM 12 (plus 10 repeater stations), FM 14, shortwave 2 (1998)
Radios	520,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations	NA (repeater stations throughout the country relay programs from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey) (1997)
Televisions	210,000 (1997)
Internet country code	.kg
Internet hosts	12,299 (2004)
Internet Service Providers ISPs	NA
Internet users	152,000 (2002)