international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat; two international digital gateway exchanges (in Harare and Gweru)
Taiwan:
general assessment: provides telecommunications service for
every business and private need
domestic: thoroughly modern; completely digitalized
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Pacific
Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); submarine cables to Japan (Okinawa),
Philippines, Guam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia,
Middle East, and Western Europe (1999)
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@Telephones - main lines in use
Afghanistan: 29,000 (1996)
note: there were 21,000 main lines in service in Kabul in 1998
Albania:
87,000 (1997)
Algeria:
2.3 million (1998)