ersal

Ukraine:
18 years of age; universal

United Arab Emirates:
none

United Kingdom:
18 years of age; universal

United States:
18 years of age; universal

Uruguay:
18 years of age; universal and compulsory

Uzbekistan:
18 years of age; universal

Vanuatu:
18 years of age; universal

Venezuela:
18 years of age; universal

Vietnam:
18 years of age; universal

Virgin Islands:
18 years of age; universal; note - indigenous
inhabitants are US citizens but do not vote in US presidential
elections

Wallis and Futuna:
18 years of age; universal

Western Sahara:
none; a UN-sponsored voter identification campaign
has yet to be completed

Yemen:
18 years of age; universal

Yugoslavia:
16 years of age, if employed; 18 years of age, universal

Zambia:
18 years of age; universal

Zimbabwe:
18 years of age; universal

Taiwan:
20 years of age; universal

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@Telephone system

Afghanistan:
general assessment: very limited telephone and
telegraph service

domestic: in 1997, telecommunications links were established
between Mazar-e Sharif, Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad, and Kabul
through satellite and microwave systems

international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
linked only to Iran and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region);
commercial satellite telephone center in Ghazni

Albania:
general assessment: Albania has the poorest telephone
service in Europe with fewer than two telephones per 100
inhabitants; it is doubtful that every village has telephone service

domestic: obsolete wire system; no longer provides a telephone for
every village; in 1992, following the fall of the communist
government, peasants cut the wire to about 1,000 villages and used
it to build fences

international: inadequate; international traffic carried by
microwave radio relay from the Tirana exchange to Italy and Greece

Algeria:
general assessment: telephone density in Algeria is very
low, not exceeding five telephones per 100 persons; the number of
fixed main lines has been increased in the last few years to a
little more than 2,000,000, but only about two-thirds of these have
subscribers; much of the infrastructure is outdated and inefficient

domestic: good service in north but sparse in south; domestic
satellite sy