Short facts about communications in Romania

Telephones - main lines in use:

3.777 million (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

645,500 (1999)

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:  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 Service Providers (ISPs):

38 (2000)

Internet users:

600,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook