Telephones - mobile cellular: NA
Telephone system:
poorly developed; about 100,000 unsatisfied applications for household telephones
domestic:
principally microwave radio relay; one cellular provider, probably limited to Bishkek region
international:
connections with other CIS countries by landline or microwave radio relay and with other countries by leased connections with Moscow international gateway switch and by satellite; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik and 1 Intelsat; connected internationally by the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line
Radio broadcast stations: AM 12 (plus 10 repeater stations), FM 14, shortwave 2 (1998)
Radios: 520,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations: NA (repeater stations throughout the country relay programs from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey) (1997)
Televisions: 210,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): NA
Internet users: 51,600 (2001)
Country code (Top-level domain): KG