@Romania:Communications
Telephone system: about 2.3 million telephones; 99 telephones/1,000
persons; 89% of phone network is automatic; poor service; cable and
open wire
local: NA
intercity: trunk network is microwave; roughly 3,300 villages with no
service (February 1990)
international: 1 INTELSAT earth station; new digital international
direct dial exchanges are in Bucharest (1993)
Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 12, FM 5, shortwave 0
radios: NA
Television:
broadcast stations: 13 (1990)
televisions: NA
@Romania:Defense Forces
Branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Paramilitary Forces,
Civil Defense
Manpower availability: males age 15-49 5,934,524; males fit for
military service 5,002,287; males reach military age (20) annually
196,587 (1995 est.)
Defense expenditures: 1,260 billion lei, 3% of GDP (1994); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results
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