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• Telephone system: 
 
western: 
40,300,000 telephones; highly developed, modern telecommunication service to all parts of the country; fully adequate in all respects; intensively developed, highly redundant cable and microwave radio relay networks, all completely automatic 
 
local: 
very modern 
 
intercity: 
domestic satellite, microwave radio relay, and cable systems 
 
international: 
12 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean), 2 INTELSAT (Indian Ocean), and 1 EUTELSAT earth station; 2 HF radiocommunication centers; tropospheric scatter links 
 
eastern: 
3,970,000 telephones; badly needs modernization 
 
local: 
NA 
 
intercity: 
NA 
 
international: 
1 INTELSAT earth station and 1 Intersputnik system 
 
• Radio: 
 
western: 
NA 
 
broadcast stations: 
AM 80, FM 470, shortwave 0 
 
radios: 
NA 
 
eastern: 
NA 
 
broadcast stations: 
AM 23, FM 17, shortwave 0 
 
radios: 
67 million 
 
• Television: 
 
broadcast stations: 
246 (repeaters 6,000); note - there are 15 Russian repeaters in eastern Germany 
 
televisions: 
25 million in western Germany, 6 million in eastern Germany