Communications in Ireland (original) (raw)

**Telephones - main lines in use:**1,642,541 (1999)

**Telephones - mobile cellular:**941,775 (1999)

**Telephone system:**modern digital system using cable and microwave radio relay
_domestic:_microwave radio relay
_international:_satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

**Radio broadcast stations:**AM 9, FM 106, shortwave 0 (1998)

**Radios:**2.55 million (1997)

**Television broadcast stations:**10 (plus 36 low-power repeaters) (1997)

**Televisions:**1.47 million (1997)

**Internet Service Providers (ISPs):**14 (1999)

Country code (Top-level domain): IE