Communications of Turkmenistan
| Telephones - main lines in use: | 495,000 (2006) |
| Telephones - mobile cellular: | 52,000 (2004) |
| Telephone system: | general assessment: poorly developed domestic: Turkmenistan's telecommunications network remains woefully underdeveloped; Turkmentelekom, in cooperation with foreign investors, is planning to upgrade the country's telephone exchanges and install a new digital switching system international: country code - 993; linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; a new telephone link from Ashgabat to Iran has been established; a new exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey via Intelsat; satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 Intelsat (2006) |
| Radio broadcast stations: | AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 2 (1998) |
| Radios: | 1.225 million (1997) |
| Television broadcast stations: | 4 (government-owned and programmed) (2004) |
| Televisions: | 820,000 (1997) |
| Internet country code: | .tm |
| Internet hosts: | 585 (2006) |
| Internet Service Providers (ISPs): | 1 |
| Internet users: | 36,000 (2005) |