Telephones NA

Telephone system system is unsatisfactory both for business and for personal use; 3.56million applications for telephones had not been satisfied as of January 1991; electronic mail services have been established in Kiev, Odessa, andLuhans'k by Sprint
domestic: an NMT-450 analog cellular telephone network operates in Kiev (Kyyiv)and allows direct dialing of international calls through Kiev's digital exchange
international: calls to other CIS countries are carried by landline or microwave radiorelay; calls to 167 other countries are carried by satellite or by the 150leased lines through the Moscow international gateway switch; satellite earthstations - NA Intelsat, 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regions), andNA Intersputnik

Radio broadcast stations 2 radio broadcast stations of NA type

Radios 15 million (1990)

Television broadcast stations at least 2

Televisions 17.3 million (1992)

NOTE: The information regarding Ukraine on this page is re-published from the 1997 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Ukraine Communications 1997 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Ukraine Communications 1997 should be addressed to the CIA.