general assessment: adequate landline and/or cellular
service in Phnom Penh and other provincial cities; rural areas have
little telephone service

domestic: NA

international: adequate but expensive landline and cellular service
available to all countries from Phnom Penh and major provincial
cities; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean
region)

Cameroon:
general assessment: available only to business and
government

domestic: cable, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter

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

Canada:
general assessment: excellent service provided by modern
technology

domestic: domestic satellite system with about 300 earth stations

international: 5 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations
- 5 Intelsat (4 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean) and 2
Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region)

Cape Verde:
general assessment: effective system, being improved

domestic: interisland microwave radio relay system with both analog
and digital exchanges; work is in progress on a submarine
fiber-optic cable system which was scheduled for completion in 1998

international: 2 coaxial submarine cables; HF radiotelephone to
Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat
(Atlantic Ocean)

Cayman Islands:
general assessment: NA

domestic: NA

international: 1 submarine coaxial cable; satellite earth station -
1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Central African Republic:
general assessment: fair system

domestic: network consists principally of microwave radio relay and
low-capacity, low-powered radiotelephone communication

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

Chad:
general assessment: primitive system

domestic: fair system of radiotelephone communication stations

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

Chile:
general assessment: modern system based on extensive
microwave radio relay facilities

domestic: extensive microwave radio relay links; domestic satellite
system with 3 earth stations

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

China:
general assessment: domestic and international services are
increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed
domestic system serves principal cities, in