Communications in Poland
Warning: This data is very old. As for early 2002 number of mobile phones was over 11 million, and number of telephones was over 9 million. Hardly any telephone centrals are analog nowadays.
Telephones - main lines in use:
8.07 million (1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.58 million (1998)
Telephone system:
underdeveloped and outmoded system; government aims to have 10 million telephones in service by 2000; the process of partial privatization of the state-owned telephone monopoly (TPSA[?]) has begun
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 14, FM 777, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios:
20.2 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
150 (1997)
Televisions:
13.05 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
161 (1999)
Country code (Top level domain): PL
domestic:
cable, open wire, and microwave radio relay; 3 cellular networks; local exchanges 56.6% digital
international:
satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat, NA Eutelsat, 2 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region)