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Communications Azerbaijan

Telephones - main lines in use: 1,091,400 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2.242 million (2005)
Telephone system: general assessment: inadequate; requires considerable expansion and modernization; teledensity of 14 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; satellite earth stations - 2 (2005)
Internet users: 678,800 (2005)
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