Short facts about communications in Poland

Telephones - main lines in use:

8.07 million (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

1.78 million (1998)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  underdeveloped and outmoded system; government aimed to have 10 million telephones in service by 2000; the process of partial privatization of the state-owned telephone monopoly has begun; in 1998 there were over 2 million applicants on the waiting list for telephone service 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 (plus 256 repeaters) (September 1995)

Televisions:

13.05 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.pl

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

19 (2000)

Internet users:

2.8 million (2000)

Source: World Factbook