| Communications | Greece |
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Telephones - main lines in use:
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5.203 million (2010) |
Telephones - main lines in use density:
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484 Telephones - main lines in use per 1000 people |
Telephones - mobile cellular:
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12.293 million (2010) |
Telephones - mobile cellular - density:
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1,143 mobile cellular telephones in use per 1000 capita |
Telephone system:
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general assessment: adequate, modern networks reach all areas; good mobile telephone and international service
domestic: microwave radio relay trunk system; extensive open-wire connections; submarine cable to offshore islands
international: country code - 30; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to Europe, Middle East, and Asia; a number of smaller submarine cables provide connectivity to various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Cyprus; tropospheric scatter; satellite earth stations - 4 (2 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean, 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat - Indian Ocean region) |
Broadcast media:
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broadcast media dominated by the private sector; roughly 150 private TV channels, about a dozen of the private channels broadcast at the national or regional level; 3 publicly-owned terrestrial TV channels with national coverage, 1 publicly-owned satellite channel, and 3 stations designed for digital terrestrial transmissions; multi-channel satellite and cable TV services obtainable; upwards of 1,500 radio stations broadcasting, nearly all of them privately-owned; state-run broadcaster has 7 national stations, 2 international stations, and 19 regional stations (2007) |
Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 26, FM 88, shortwave 4 (1998) |
Radio broadcast stations AM density:
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413,852 people per AM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations FM density:
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122,275 people per FM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations shortwave density:
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2,690,034 people per shortwave Radio broadcast station |
Television broadcast stations:
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36 (plus 1,341 repeaters); also 2 stations in the American Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (1995) |
Television broadcast stations density:
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298,893 people per Television broadcast station |
Internet country code:
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.gr |
Internet hosts:
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2.574 million (2010) |
Internet users:
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4.971 million (2009) |
Internet users - density:
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462 internet users per 1000 capita |
Communications - note:
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void |
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