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<text id=93CT0440>
<title>
Estonia--Communications
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Estonia
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: 1,030 km (includes NA km electrified); does not
include industrial lines (1990)
</p>
<p>Highways: 30,300 km total (1990); 29,200 km hard surfaced;
1,100 km earth
</p>
<p>Inland waterways: 500 km perennially navigable
</p>
<p>Pipelines: natural gas 420 km (1992)
</p>
<p>Ports: coastal - Tallinn, Novotallin, Parnu; inland - Narva
</p>
<p>Merchant marine: 68 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 394,501
GRT/526,502 DWT; includes 52 cargo, 6 roll-on/roll-off, 2
short-sea passenger, 6 bulk, 2 container
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 29</l>
<l> useable: 18</l>
<l> with permanent-surface runways: 11</l>
<l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
<l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 10</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 8</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: 300,000 telephone subscribers in 1990 with
international direct dial service available to Finland, Germany,
Austria, UK and France; 21 telephone lines per 100 persons as of
1991; broadcast stations - 3 TV (provide Estonian programs as
well as Moscow Ostenkino's first and second programs);
international traffic is carried to the other former USSR
republics by landline or microwave and to other countries by
leased connection to the Moscow international gateway switch via
19 incoming/20 outgoing international channels, by the Finnish
cellular net, and by an old copper submarine cable to Finland
soon to be replaced by an undersea fiber optic cable system;
there is also a new international telephone exchange in Tallinn
handling 60 channels via Helsinki; 2 analog mobile cellular
networks with international roaming capability to Scandinavia
are operating in major cities
</p></body></article></text>