Communications in Moldova
Telephones - main lines in use:
627,000 (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
2,200 (1997)
Telephone system:
inadequate, outmoded, poor service outside Chisinau, some effort to modernize is under way
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 7, FM 50, shortwave 3 (1998)
Radios:
3.22 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
40 (1998)
Televisions:
1.26 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (1999)
Country code (Top level domain): MD
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