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Iraq
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In 1988 Iraq had a good telecommunications network of radio
communication stations, radio relay links, and coaxial cables.
Iraqi radio and television stations came under the government's
Iraqi Broadcasting and Television Establishment, which was
responsible to the Ministry of Culture and Information. The
domestic service had one FM and nine AM stations with two program
networks. The domestic service broadcast mainly in Arabic, but
also in Kurdish, Turkoman, and Assyrian from Kirkuk. The short
wave foreign service broadcast in Arabic, Azeri Turkish, English,
French, German, Hebrew, Kurdish, Persian, Russian, Spanish, and
Urdu. Television stations were located in the major cities, and
they carried two program networks. In 1988 Iraq had approximately
972,000 television sets; the system was connected to both the
Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean systems of the International
Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) as well as
to one Soviet Intersputnik satellite station. It also had coaxial
cable and radio relays linking it to Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and
Turkey. Iraq had an estimated 632,000 telephones in 1988.
Data as of May 1988
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