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Romania - Communications (Facts)

Telephones - main lines in use: 4.386 million (2005) Telephones - mobile cellular: 13.354 million (2005) Telephone system: general assessment: rapidly improving domestic and international service, especially in wireless telephony domestic: 90% of telephone network is automatic; liberalization in 2003 is transforming telecommunications; there has been 20% growth in fixed lines with a penetration rate of 58% of households; nation-wide wireless service is growing even faster with 4 major providers and a penetration rate of 32% international: country code - 40; satellite earth stations - 10; digital, international, direct-dial exchanges operate in Bucharest (2005) Radio broadcast stations: AM 40, FM 202, shortwave 3 (1998) Television broadcast stations: 48 (plus 392 repeaters) (1995) Internet country code: .ro Internet hosts: 57,470 (2006) Internet users: 5.063 million (2006)