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• Telephone system: 
20,000,000 telephones; domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed internal system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and most townships; expanding phone lines, interprovincial fiber optic links, satellite communications, cellullar/mobile communications, etc. 
 
local: 
NA 
 
intercity: 
fiber optic trunk lines, 55 earth stations for domestic satellites 
 
international: 
5 INTELSAT earth stations (4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1 INMARSAT earth station; several international fiber optic links to Japan and Hong Kong 
 
• Radio: 
 
broadcast stations: 
AM 274, FM NA, shortwave 0 
 
radios: 
215 million 
 
• Television: 
 
broadcast stations: 
202 (repeaters 2,050) 
  
televisions: 
75 million