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Lithuania Communications 2000
Telephones - main lines in use:
1.048 million (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
297,500 (1998)
Telephone system:
inadequate but is being modernized to provide an improved international capability and better residential access
domestic:
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
international:
landline connections to Latvia and Poland; major international connections are to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 3, FM 112, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios:
1.9 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
82 (mainly repeater stations) (1998)
Televisions:
1.7 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
10 (1999)
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