| Number of Telephone Center and Number of Telephone Establishingand in Operation Till the End of the Year | ||||||||||||||
| Items | Unit | 1976 | 1980 | 1985 | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| Telephone center | center | 49 | 78 | 91 | 68 | 55 | 21 | 34 | 37 | 43 | 94 | 93 | 96 | 94 |
| Automatic | center | ... | ... | ... | 20 | 32 | 15 | 33 | 36 | 42 | 89 | 88 | 88 | 88 |
| Magnetic | center | ... | ... | ... | 48 | 23 | 6 | … | … | … | … | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Mobile | center | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 |
| Number of telephone | booth | 3 749 | 4 488 | 7 396 | 6 373 | 16 263 | 34 536 | 78 426 | 206 321 | 182 174 | 402 804 | 642 398 | 870 753 | 1 185 982 |
| establishing and operation | ||||||||||||||
| Automatic | booth | 2 919 | 3 305 | 6 009 | 5 913 | 16 015 | 34 396 | 48 557 | 121 012 | 69 008 | 84 923 | 77 016 | 73 523 | 85 079 |
| Magnetic | booth | 830 | 1 183 | 1 387 | 460 | 248 | 140 | … | … | … | … | 364 | 295 | 293 |
| Public | booth | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | … | 324 | 782 | 375 | 397 | 9 861 | 18 498 | 25 538 |
| Mobile | booth | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | … | 29 545 | 84 527 | 112 791 | 317 484 | 555 157 | 778 437 | 1 075 072 |
| Packlink | Unit | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … |
| Number of telephone by sector | booth | 3 749 | _ | 7 396 | 6 373 | 16 263 | 47 383 | 81 265 | 211 552 | 185 362 | 217 106 | 473 230 | 628 134 | 788 731 |
| State sector | booth | 2 830 | … | 5 594 | 5 261 | 4 092 | 4 191 | 9 074 | 23 621 | 20 679 | 18 617 | 45 955 | 61 189 | 78 873 |
| Int.organization | booth | 150 | … | 251 | 216 | 567 | 642 | 1 229 | 3 199 | 2 803 | 4 230 | 6 569 | 8 747 | 11 042 |
| Private sector | booth | 769 | … | 1 551 | 896 | 11 149 | 41 654 | 69 177 | 180 084 | 157 808 | 192 779 | 419 226 | 558 198 | 698816 |
| LTC | booth | … | … | ... | ... | 455 | 896 | 1 785 | 4 648 | 4 072 | 1 480 | 1 480 | - | - |
| Telegraph office | place | 45 | 73 | 108 | 113 | 111 | 112 | 103 | 204 | 102 | 100 | 57 | - | - |
| Source: Ministry of Communication, Transport, Post and Construction | ||||||||||||||
| Remark: Unincluded mobile-phones into number of the telephones by sector1997 | ||||||||||||||