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General assessment: Inadequate; requires considerable expansion and modernization; teledensity of 14 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: Country code - 994; the old Soviet system of cable and microwave is still serviceable; satellite earth stations - 2 (2005)