Hungary



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Hungary Communications 2008

Telephones - main lines in use: 3.251 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 11.03 million (2007)
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; competition among mobile-cellular service providers has led to a sharp increase in the use of mobile cellular phones since 2000 and a decrease in the number of fixed-line connections international: country code - 36; 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)
Television broadcast stations: 35 (plus 161 repeaters) (1995)
Internet country code: .hu
Internet hosts: 1.879 million (2008)
Internet users: 4.2 million (2007)

NOTE: The communications information regarding Hungary on this page is re-published from the 2008 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Hungary Communications 2008 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Hungary Communications 2008 should be addressed to the CIA.