<item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> a C-130 can land on a 1,060-m airstrip
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<item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> progress on installation of fiber optic cable and construction of facilities for mobile cellular phone service remains in the negotiation phase for joint venture agreement; Armenia has about 650,000 telephones; average telephone density is 17.7 per 100 persons; international connections to other former republics of the USSR are by landline or microwave and to other countries by satellite and by leased connection through the Moscow international gateway switch; broadcast stations—100% of population receives Armenian and Russian TV programs; satellite earth station—INTELSAT