Telephone System
- Telephones - main lines in use: 784,900 (2008) /819,147 (2004)
- Telephones - mobile cellular: 5,022,600 (2008)
- Telephone system: adequate but is being further modernized to provide an improved international capability and better residential access
- Domestic telephone system: a national fiber-optic cable interurban trunk system is nearing completion; rural exchanges are being improved and expanded; mobile cellular systems are being installed; access to the Internet is available;
- International telephone system: landline connections to Latvia and Poland; major international connections are to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite
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