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General assessment: Inadequate; requires considerable expansion and modernization; teledensity of 10 main lines per 100 persons is low (2002)
Domestic: The majority of telephones are in Baku and other industrial centers - about 700 villages still without public telephone service; satellite service connects Baku to a modern switch in its exclave of Naxcivan
International: The old Soviet system of cable and microwave is still serviceable; a satellite connection to Turkey enables Baku to reach about 200 additional countries, some of which are directly connected to Baku by satellite providers other than Turkey (1997)