Communications

Telephones - main lines in use:	627,000 (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	2,200 (1997)
Telephone system:	general assessment: inadequate, outmoded, poor service outside Chisinau, some effort to modernize is under way domestic: new subscribers face long wait for service; mobile cellular telephone service being introduced international: service through Romania and Russia via landline; satellite earth stations - Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 7, FM 50, shortwave 3 (1998)
Radios:	3.22 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:	1 (plus 30 repeaters) (1995)
Televisions:	1.26 million (1997)
Internet country code:	.md
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	2 (1999)
Internet users:	15,000 (2000)

posted to Factbook: Moldova. at Wed Jun 11 01:23:00 EDT 2003.