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Asia > Russia > Media

RUSSIAN MEDIA STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Average cost of local call 0.01 [149th of 151]
Cinema attendance 19,054,000 [22nd of 78]
Cinemas 1,416 [9th of 68]
DVD region 5 [28th of 171]
Films produced 120 [10th of 50]
Number of PCs 19,010 [9th of 169]
Radios 61,500,000 [8th of 221]
Telephone system > Domestic
cross-country digital trunk lines run from Saint Petersburg to Khabarovsk, and from Moscow to Novorossiysk; the telephone systems in 60 regional capitals have modern digital infrastructures; cellular services, both analog and digital, are available in many areas; in rural areas, the telephone services are still outdated, inadequate, and low density
Telephone system > General assessment
the telephone system is experiencing significant changes; there are more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services; access to digital lines has improved, particularly in urban centers; Internet and e-mail services are improving; Russia has made progress toward building the telecommunications infrastructure necessary for a market economy; the estimated number of mobile subscribers jumped from fewer than 1 million in 1998 to 120 million in 2005; a large demand for main line service remains unsatisfied, but fixed-line operators continue to grow their services
Telephone system > International
country code - 7; Russia is connected internationally by 3 undersea fiber-optic cables; digital switches in several cities provide more than 50,000 lines for international calls; satellite earth stations provide access to Intelsat, Intersputnik, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Orbita systems
Telephone systems > Privatisation 1997
Telephones > Main lines in use 40,100,000 [7th of 225]
Telephones > Mobile cellular 120,000,000 [3rd of 220]
Television broadcast stations 7,306 [1st of 220]
Television standard > UHF
SECAM K
Television standard > VHF SECAM D
Televisions 60,500,000 [5th of 215]
Website defacements 112 [18th of 129]
World music market > Album Sales Share 2.0-2.9%
World music market > Value share 0.5-1.4%

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SOURCES: ; UNESCO Institute for Statistics, March 11, 2003; Amazon.com; Internet Movie Database 2003; ITU; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; ITU-BDT Telecommunications Regulatory Database; Tenlab May 2002; attrition.org; Wikipedia: World music market

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Russia, Russian Federation, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, Rossiya

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