Communications in Transnistria
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Communications in Transnistria
Telephones - main lines in use: 150,000 land lines (est., 2006) (Two operators: JSC Interdnestrcom, Trans-Tele-Com)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 140,000 (est., 2006) (About 71% belong to JSC Interdnestrcom, a CDMA operator. The rest are GSM)[1][2]
Telephone system: Digital infrastructure, privatization of all services[3],[4]
Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 6, shortwave N/A (2006)
Radios: N/A
Television broadcast stations: 3 (2 covering all of Transnistria, 1 municipal for Tiraspol and Bender)[5]
Televisions: N/A
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 2 (2005)
Internet users: N/A
Country code (Top-level domain): N/A
[edit] Cellphone technology investments
Despite many economic and social difficulties Transnistria has heavily invested in advanced communications technology. In recent years USA electronics Lucent Technologies were contracted to establish wireless high speed digital standard CDMA2000 1X for mobile phone and internet users in Transnistria.
The updated network with the third generation (3G) mobile services allows data transmission with the speeds of up to 153 kilobits per second (kbit/s).
