Main City Codes:
Andijan 74, Bukara 65, Djizak 72, Ferghana 73, Kashkadaria 75, Karakalpakia 61, Khorezm 62, Samarkand 66, Surkhandaria 76, Syrdariya 67, Tashkent 71
Mobile Phone Codes:
Uzbekistan mobile codes 98
Communications: Uzbekistan
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 1.98 million (1999)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 130,000 (2003)
- Telephone system:
- general assessment: antiquated and inadequate; in serious need of modernization
- domestic: the domestic telephone system is being expanded and technologically improved, particularly in Tashkent (Toshkent) and Samarqand, under contracts with prominent companies in industrialized countries; moreover, by 1998, six cellular networks had been placed in operation - four of the GSM type (Global System for Mobile Communication), one D-AMPS type (Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System), and one AMPS type (Advanced Mobile Phone System)
- international: linked by landline or microwave radio relay with CIS member states and to other countries by leased connection via the Moscow international gateway switch; after the completion of the Uzbek link to the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable, Uzbekistan will be independent of Russian facilities for international communications; Inmarsat also provides an international connection, albeit an expensive one; satellite earth stations - NA (1998)
- Internet country code:
- .uz
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 42 (2000)
- Internet users:
- 100,000 (2002)
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