Communications
Telephones: 5.24 million (including 663 million car-mobile phones) (1996 est.)
Telephone system: excellent domestic and international services domestic: extensive cable and microwave radio relay networks international: satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 50 (state-owned 10, private 40, shortwave 1 (1997)
Radios: 2.8 million (1996)
Television broadcast stations: 15 of which state-owned 5, private 10 (repeaters 1,322) (1997)
Televisions: 2.647 million licenses (1996)
@Switzerland:Transportation
Railways: total: 5,249 km (1,564 km double track) standard gauge: 3,741 km 1.435-m gauge (3,119 km electrified; 808 km nongovernment owned) narrow gauge: 1,438 km 1.000-m gauge (1,088 km electrified; 1,364 km nongovernment owned) other gauge: 70 km 0.750-m or 0.800-m gauge (1996)
Highways: total: 71,117 km (including 1,594 km of expressways) paved: NA km unpaved: NA km (1996 est.)