Greece Telecommunications Profile 2004

Telephones - main lines in use

5,205,100 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular

8,936,200 (2003)

Telephone system

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; tropospheric scatter; 8 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region)

Radio broadcast stations

AM 26, FM 88, shortwave 4 (1998)

Television broadcast stations

36 (plus 1,341 low-power repeaters); also two stations in the US Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (1995)

Internet country code

.gr

Internet hosts

208,977 (2004)

Internet users

1,718,400 (2003)