Poland Communications

Telephones - main lines in use: 12.3 million (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 17.401 million (2003)

Telephone system: general assessment: underdeveloped and outmoded system in the process of being overhauled; partial privatization of the state-owned telephone monopoly is underway; the long waiting list for main line telephone service has resulted in a boom in mobile cellular telephone use domestic: cable, open-wire, and microwave radio relay; 3 cellular networks; local exchanges 56.6% digital international: country code - 48; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat, NA Eutelsat, 2 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 14, FM 777, shortwave 1 (1998)

Television broadcast stations: 179 (plus 256 repeaters) (September 1995)

Internet country code: .pl

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 8.97 million (2003)



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