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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)
Radios:
7.2 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
48 (plus 392 repeaters) (1995)
Televisions:
5.25 million (1997)
Internet country code:
.ro
Internet hosts:
50,807 (2004)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
38 (2000)
Internet users:
4 million (2003)
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The World Factbook 2005, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)