stem with 12 earth stations (20 additional domestic
earth stations are planned)

international: 5 submarine cables; microwave radio relay to Italy,
France, Spain, Morocco, and Tunisia; coaxial cable to Morocco and
Tunisia; participant in Medarabtel; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik, and
1 Arabsat (1998)

American Samoa:
general assessment: NA

domestic: good telex, telegraph, facsimile and cellular telephone
services; domestic satellite system with 1 Comsat earth station

international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

Andorra:
general assessment: NA

domestic: modern system with microwave radio relay connections
between exchanges

international: landline circuits to France and Spain

Angola:
general assessment: telephone service limited mostly to
government and business use; HF radiotelephone used extensively for
military links

domestic: limited system of wire, microwave radio relay, and
tropospheric scatter

international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean)

Anguilla:
general assessment: NA

domestic: modern internal telephone system

international: microwave radio relay to island of Saint Martin
(Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles)

Antarctica:
general assessment: NA

domestic: NA

international: NA

Antigua and Barbuda:
general assessment: NA

domestic: good automatic telephone system

international: 1 coaxial submarine cable; satellite earth station -
1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Saba
(Netherlands Antilles) and Guadeloupe

Argentina:
general assessment: by opening the telecommunications
market to competition and foreign investment with the
"Telecommunications Liberalization Plan of 1998", Argentina
encouraged the growth of modern telecommunication technology;
fiber-optic cable trunk lines are being installed between all major
cities; the major networks are entirely digital and the availability
of telephone service is being improved; however, telephone density
is presently minimal, and making telephone service universally
available will take some time

domestic: microwave radio relay, fiber-optic cable, and a domestic
satellite system with 40 earth stations serve the trunk network;
more than 110,000 pay telephones are installed and mobile telephone