A telephone handset A touch-tone telephone dial Telephone The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device that transmits speech by means of electric signals. ...Telephones _ main lines in use: 9.45 million (April 1999)

Telephones _ mobile cellular: 236,000 (1998)

Telephone system: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan, running through 2005, emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines and international connections, and developing a 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 now rising slowly and the domestic trunk system is being improved. From a small base, the mobile cellular telephone system is expanding at a high rate
international: two new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber_optic Trans_Asia_Europe (TAE) system and three Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber_optic Trans_European Lines (TEL) project which 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 is the worlds largest commercial satellite communications services provider. ...Intelsat, INMARSAT, is an international telecommunications company founded in 1979. ...Inmarsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems

Radio transmission diagram and electromagnetic waves Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light. ...Radio Note: broadcasting is also the old term for hand sowing. ...broadcast stations: AM 134, FM 289, shortwave 4 (1998)

Radios: 45.05 million (1997)

See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Family watching television in the 1950s. ...Television broadcast stations: at least 33 (plus 21 repeater stations that relay broadcasts from Russia) (1997)

Televisions: 18.05 million (1997)

An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a business or organization that offers users access to the Internet and related services. ...Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 35 (1999)

Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. ...Country code (Top level domain): UA

External link

• Kiev Ukraine City Guide (http://kievukraine.info/) _ All about the city made famous by the Orange Revolution.

See also : Ukraine (Україна, Ukrayina in Ukrainian; Украина in Russian) is a republic in eastern Europe which borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest and the Black Sea to the south. ...Ukraine