Czech Republic Communications 2007

Telephones - main lines in use:
3,217,300 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
12.15 million (2006)

Telephone system:
general assessment: privatization and modernization of the Czech telecommunication system got a late start but is advancing steadily; access to the fixed-line telephone network expanded throughout the 1990s; mobile telephone usage increased sharply beginning in the mid-1990s and there are now about 120 mobile telephones per 100 persons
domestic: 93% of exchanges now digital; existing copper subscriber systems enhanced with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital signals; trunk systems include fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
international: country code - 420; satellite earth stations - 2 Intersputnik (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat, 1 Globalstar (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 31, FM 304, shortwave 17 (2000)

Television broadcast stations:
150 (plus 1,434 repeaters) (2000)

Internet country code:
.cz

Internet hosts:
1.668 million (2007)