Communications in Poland (original) (raw)

Warning: Parts of this data are out-of-date. Most analog telephone exchanges have been replaced with digital technology.

**Telephones - main lines in use:**11 million (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

13 million (2002)

**Telephone system:**underdeveloped and outmoded system in the process of being overhauled; partial privatization of the state-owned telephone monopoly (TPSA) 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:_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)

**Radios:**20.2 million (1997)

**Television broadcast stations:**179 + 256 repeaters (1995)

**Televisions:**13.05 million (1997)

**Internet Service Providers (ISPs):**19 (1999)

**Internet Users:**12 million (2003)

Country code (Top level domain): PL

See also : Poland