Telephones: 1.52 million (1993 est.)
Telephone system: 14,213 telex lines; automatic telephone network
based on microwave radio relay system; 608,000 telephones on order;
12-15 year wait for a telephone; 49% of all telephones are in
Budapest (1991 est.); note - the former state-owned
telecommunications firm MATAV - now privatized and managed by a
US/German consortium - has ambitious plans to upgrade the inadequate
system, including a contract with the German firm Siemens and the
Swedish firm Ericsson to provide 600,000 new phone lines during
1996-98
domestic: microwave radio relay
international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat and 1
Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean Region)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 32, FM 15, shortwave 0
Radios: 6 million (1993 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 41 (Russian repeaters 8)
Televisions: 4.38 million (1993 est.)
Defense ———-
Branches: Ground Forces, Air and Air Defense Forces, Border Guard,
Territorial Defense
Manpower availability: males age 15-49: 2,552,794 males fit for military service: 2,036,399 males reach military age (18) annually: 82,040 (1996 est.)
Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $620 million, 1.7% of GDP (1995)