Azerbaijan, Baku, 9 July / corr. Trend S.Babayeva / The Azerbaijani Communication and Information Technology supplied more than 33,000 families with telephones in January-July, the Ministry said.
The general amount of telephone numbers, which have been put into exploitation during this period, made 33,562 units. A total of 23,482 numbers of them belong to Aztelekom Production Association (PA) and the rest to Baktelekom PA.
According to the Government's forecasts, the number of telephones will be increased to 19.8 units per 100 people by 2011, while at present this figure amounts to 15 units.