Telephones - fixed lines:
total subscriptions: 3.27 million
[see also: Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions country ranks ]
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 38 (2014 est.)
[see also: Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 45

Telephones - mobile cellular:
total: 13 million
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular - total country ranks ]
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 150 (2014 est.)
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 71

Telephone system:
general assessment: highly developed and efficient
domestic: fixed-line subscribership has been in decline since the mid-1990s with mobile-cellular subscribership eclipsing it by the late 1990s; the fiber-optic net is very extensive; all telephone applications and Internet services are available
international: country code - 43; satellite earth stations - 15; in addition, there are about 600 VSATs (very small aperture terminals) (2007)

Broadcast media:
Austria's public broadcaster, Osterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), was the main broadcast source until commercial radio and TV service was introduced in the 1990s; cable and satellite TV are available, including German TV stations (2008)

Radio broadcast stations:
FM 65 (plus several hundred repeaters), shortwave 1 (2009)

Television - broadcast stations:
9 (2010)

Internet country code:
.at

Internet hosts:
3.512 million (2012)
country comparison to the world: 30
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]

Internet users:
total: 7.2 million
[see also: Internet users - total country ranks ]
percent of population: 83.7% (2014 est.)
[see also: Internet users - percent of population country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 53