Telephone system: 710,000 telephones; 90 telephones/1,000 persons
(1991); 202,000 persons waiting for telephone installations (January
1991); domestic telephone service is of poor quality and inadequate
local: a joint venture to establish a cellular telephone system
(Bakcel) in the Baku area is supposed to become operational in 1994
intercity: NA
international: connections to other former USSR republics by cable and
microwave and to other countries via the Moscow international gateway
switch; INTELSAT link installed in late 1992 in Baku with Turkish
financial assistance with access to 200 countries through Turkey;
since August 1993 an earth station near Baku has provided direct
communications with New York through Russia's Stationar-11 satellite
Radio:
broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA
radios: NA
Television:
broadcast stations: NA; domestic and Russian TV programs are received
locally and Turkish and Iranian TV is received from an INTELSAT
satellite through a receive-only earth station
televisions: NA
@Azerbaijan:Defense Forces
Branches: Army, Air Force, Navy, Maritime Border Guard, National
Guard, Security Forces (internal and border troops)
Manpower availability: males age 15-49 1,927,955; males fit for
military service 1,553,736; males reach military age (18) annually
68,407 (1995 est.)
Defense expenditures: 70.5 billion rubles, 10% of GDP (1993 budget allocation); note - conversion of the military budget into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results
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THE BAHAMAS
@The Bahamas:Geography