Short facts about communications in Hungary

Telephones - main lines in use:

3.095 million (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

1.269 million (July 1999)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  the telephone system has been modernized and is capable of satisfying all requests for telecommunication service domestic:  the system is digitalized and highly automated; trunk services are carried by fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay; a program for fiber-optic subscriber connections was initiated in 1996; heavy use is made of mobile cellular telephones international:  Hungary has fiber-optic cable connections with all neighboring countries; the international switch is in Budapest; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Inmarsat, 1 very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system of ground terminals

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 17, FM 57, shortwave 3 (1998)

Radios:

7.01 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

35 (plus 161 low-power repeaters) (1995)

Televisions:

4.42 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.hu

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

16 (2000)

Internet users:

650,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook