Moldova Communications 2008

Telephones - main lines in use:
1.018 million (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.358 million (2006)

Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate, outmoded, poor service outside Chisinau; some modernization is under way
domestic: depending on location, new subscribers may face long wait for service; multiple private operators of GSM mobile cellular telephone service are operating; GPRS system is being introduced; a CDMA mobile telephone network began operations in 2007
international: country code - 373; service through Romania and Russia via landline; satellite earth stations - Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik (2006)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 29, shortwave NA (2006)

Television broadcast stations:
40 (2006)

Internet country code:
.md

Internet hosts:
112,026 (2007)