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    Sri Lanka Communications 2000

      Telephones - main lines in use: 494,509 (1998)

      Telephones - mobile cellular: 228,604 (1999)

      Telephone system: very inadequate domestic service, particularly in rural areas; some hope for improvement with privatization of national telephone company and encouragement to private investment; good international service (1999)
      domestic: national trunk network consists mostly of digital microwave radio relay; fiber-optic links now in use in Colombo area and two fixed wireless local loops have been installed; competition is strong in mobile cellular systems; telephone density remains low at 2.6 main lines per 100 persons (1999)
      international: submarine cables to Indonesia and Djibouti; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (1999)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 26, FM 45, shortwave 1 (1998)

      Radios: 3.85 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations: 21 (1997)

      Televisions: 1.53 million (1997)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 4 (1999)

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