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CommunicationsTelephones - main lines in use World Ranking: 73
1.18 million (2008)
Telephone system
General assessment
Adequate system; nationwide fiber-optic network; mobile-cellular service expanding beyond Pyongyang Domestic Fiber-optic links installed down to the county level; telephone directories unavailable; GSM mobile-cellular service initiated in 2002 but suspended in 2004; Orascom Telecom Holding, an Egyptian company, launched W-CDMA mobile service on December 15, 2008 for the Pyongyang area and has expanded service to several large cities International Country code - 850; satellite earth stations - 2 (1 Intelsat - Indian Ocean, 1 Russian - Indian Ocean region); other international connections through Moscow and Beijing (2009) Broadcast media
No independent media; radios and TVs are pre-tuned to government stations; 4 government-owned TV stations; the Korean Workers' Party owns and operates the Korean Central Broadcasting Station, and the state-run Voice of Korea operates an external broadcast service; the government prohibits listening to and jams foreign broadcasts (2008) Internet country code
.kp
Internet hosts World Ranking: 225
7 (2010)
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