Azerbaijan, Baku, 10 July / Trend corr S.Babayeva/ Azerbaijan's Communications & IT Ministry reported on 10 July that within six months of 2008 it provided over 24,000 families with telephones.
Telephone numbers put into operation in the period numbered 24,458, with 19,402 of them of Aztelekom and 5,056 of Baktelekom.
According to Government's forecasts, number of telephone sets per every 100 people in Azerbaijan will rise to 19.8 by 2011, while currently the figure is 15.