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PolandCommunications
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Poland: Communications
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Telephones - main lines in use: |
12.3 million (2003) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular: |
17.401 million (2003) |
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Telephone system: |
general assessment: underdeveloped and outmoded system in the process of being overhauled; partial privatization of the state-owned telephone monopoly is underway; the long waiting list for main line telephone service has resulted in a boom in mobile cellular telephone use
domestic: cable, open-wire, and microwave radio relay; 3 cellular networks; local exchanges 56.6% digital international: country code - 48; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat, NA Eutelsat, 2 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region) |
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Radio broadcast stations: |
AM 14, FM 777, shortwave 1 (1998) |
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Radios: |
20.2 million (1997) |
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Television broadcast stations: |
179 (plus 256 repeaters) (September 1995) |
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Televisions: |
13.05 million (1997) |
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Internet country code: |
.pl |
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Internet hosts: |
804,915 (2004) |
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs): |
19 (2000) |
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Internet users: |
8.97 million (2003) |
More about Poland:
The World Factbook 2005, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
