Romania Communications

Telephones - main lines in use: 4.3 million (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 6.9 million (2003)

Telephone system: general assessment: poor domestic service, but improving domestic: 90% of telephone network is automatic; trunk network is mostly microwave radio relay, with some fiber-optic cable; about one-third of exchange capacity is digital; roughly 3,300 villages have no service international: country code - 40; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat; new digital, international, direct-dial exchanges operate in Bucharest; note - Romania is an active participant in several international telecommunication network projects (1999)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 40, FM 202, shortwave 3 (1998)

Television broadcast stations: 48 (plus 392 repeaters) (1995)

Internet country code: .ro

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 4 million (2003)



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