Romania Communications:
Telephones — main lines in use:
4.3 million (2003 est.)
Telephones — mobile cellular:
6.9 million (2003 est.)
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 est.)
Television broadcast stations:
48 (plus 392 repeaters) (1995 est.)
Internet country code:
.ro
Internet hosts:
50,807 (2004 est.)
Internet users:
4 million (2003 est.)
|
