Communications in Romania
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Telephones - main lines in use: 4,390,800 (2005, [1])
Telephones - mobile cellular: 15,290,000 (September 2006, [2]), 3 GSM cellular networks covering more than 85% of the territory (about 98% of the population) as well as one CDMA network. The two largest networks, Vodafone and Orange also provide UMTS (3G) services. See list of mobile network operators for market share data.
Total telephone penetration rate: 90.8%
Telephone system: - general assessment: rapidly improving domestic and international service, especially in wireless telephony
domestic: good, modern services in urban areas; 98% of telephone network is automatic while 71% is digitised; 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radio relay, with some fiber-optic cable; about one-third of exchange capacity is digital; roughly 3,300 villages have outdated or no service
international: satellite country code - 40; satellite earth station - 10 (Intelsat 4); digital, international, direct-dial exchanges operate in Bucharest.
See also Romania Telephone Area Codes.
Radio broadcast stations: AM 40, FM 202, shortwave 3 (1998)
Radio sets: 12.1 million (2005)
Television broadcast stations: 130 (plus about 400 low-power repeaters) (1997)
Television sets: 11.35 million (2005)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): Dial-up Access: 145 providers, Cable Access: 56 providers, Optical Fiber Access : 52 providers, Radio Access : 121 providers, xDSL Access : 65 providers, Other means (BNC,UTP etc.) : 124 providers. (source : ANRC)
Internet users: approximately 6,000,000 (July 2006, [3]), 750,000 broadband subscriptions [4] (2005)
Country code (Top level domain): RO
approx. 88,000 domains registered under .RO
- See also : Romania
