Telephones: 342,000 (1991 est.)
Telephone system: poorly developed; about 100,000 unsatisfied applications for household telephones domestic: principally microwave radio relay international: 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
Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA; note -1
state-run radio broadcast station
Radios: 825,000 (radio receiver systems with multiple speakers for
program diffusion 748,000)
Television broadcast stations: 1
note: receives Turkish broadcasts
Televisions: 875,000
Defense ———-
Branches: Army, National Guard, Security Forces (internal and
border troops), Civil Defense
Manpower availability: males age 15-49: 1,096,985 males fit for military service: 890,901 males reach military age (18) annually: 44,159 (1996 est.)
Defense expenditures: 151 million soms, NA% of GDP (1995); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results