Azerbaijan Communications
Telephones - main lines in use923,800 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular
870,000 (2002)
Telephone system
general assessment: inadequate; requires considerable expansion and modernization; teledensity of 10 main lines per 100 persons is low (2002)
domestic: the majority of telephones are in Baku and other industrial centers - about 700 villages still without public telephone service; satellite service connects Baku to a modern switch in its exclave of Naxcivan
international: country code - 994; the old Soviet system of cable and microwave is still serviceable; a satellite connection to Turkey enables Baku to reach about 200 additional countries, some of which are directly connected to Baku by satellite providers other than Turkey (1997)
Radio broadcast stations
AM 10, FM 17, shortwave 1 (1998)
Television broadcast stations
2 (1997)
Internet country code
.az
Internet hosts
586 (2004)
Internet users
300,000 (2002)
