private, laterite-surfaced roads Ports: Bounty Bay Airports: total: 1,841 usable: 1,478 with permanent-surface runways: 10 with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 3 with permanent-surface runways: 11 with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 2 with permanent-surface runways: 16 with runways over 3,659 m: 9 with runways over 3,659 m: 0 with runways over 3,659 m: 0 with runways over 3,659 m: 0 with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 8 with runways over 3,659 m: 0 with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 1 Telecommunications: adequate, automatic domestic system poor but improving; provides only minimal service with Sydney; 987 telephones (1983); broadcast stations - 41 AM, 800 (mostly repeaters) FM, 361 TV; tropospheric links, 8 submarine cables; microwave radio relay links; privatized
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