WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 284 / 356
Banska Bystrica) are available; Slovakia is participating in several international
telecommunications projects that will increase the availability of external services.
Slovenia general assessment: NA
domestic: 100% digital
international: country code - 386
Turkey general assessment: undergoing rapid modernization and expansion especially with
cellular telephones.
domestic: additional digital exchanges are permitting a rapid increase in subscribers;
the construction of a network of technologically advanced intercity trunk lines, using
both fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay, is facilitating communication
between urban centers; remote areas are reached by a domestic satellite system;
the number of subscribers to mobile cellular telephone service is growing rapidly.
international: country code - 90; international service is provided by 3 submarine
fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, linking Turkey with Italy,
Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia; satellite earth stations - 12 Intelsat;
mobile satellite terminals - 328 in the Inmarsat and Eutelsat systems.
Ukraine general assessment: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan, running
through 2005, emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international connections,
and the mobile cellular system.
domestic: at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a telephone system
that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair; more than 3.5 million applications
for telephones could not be satisfied; telephone density is rising slowly and the
domestic trunk system is being improved; the mobile cellular telephone system is
expanding at a high rate.
international: country code - 380; 2 new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiberoptic
Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and 3 Ukrainian links have been installed in
the fiber-optic Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that connects 18 countries;
additional international service is provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR)
fiber-optic submarine cable and by earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and
Intersputnik satellite systems.
Table A- 3 Telephone system in Eastern Europe
A.4 TLC operators and broadcast station number in Eastern Europe
The data of the TLC operators are taken from “ITU World Telecommunication Regulatory
Database” and are updated on 2007, while the data of the number of the Radio & TV
broadcast stations and the internet connections broadband are taken from “CIA World
FactBook” and are updated on November 2007.