Austria - Communications

Telephones - main lines in use:

3.564 million (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

9.255 million (2006)

Telephone system:

general assessment: highly developed and efficient
domestic: fixed-line subscribership has been in decline since the mid-1990s with mobile-cellular subscribership elipsing 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)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 2, FM 65 (plus several hundred repeaters), shortwave 1 (2001)

Television broadcast stations:

10 (plus more than 1,000 repeaters) (2001)

Internet country code:

.at

Internet hosts:

2.427 million (2007)

Internet users:

4.2 million (2006)