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Telephones - main lines in use: 54.2 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 84.3 million (2006)
Telephone system: general assessment: Germany has one of
the world's most technologically advanced telecommunications systems; as a
result of intensive capital expenditures since reunification, the formerly
backward system of the eastern part of the country, dating back to World War II,
has been modernized and integrated with that of the western part
domestic: Germany is served by an extensive system of automatic telephone
exchanges connected by modern networks of fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable,
microwave radio relay, and a domestic satellite system; cellular telephone
service is widely available, expanding rapidly, and includes roaming service to
many foreign countries
international: country code - 49; Germany's international service is
excellent worldwide, consisting of extensive land and undersea cable facilities
as well as earth stations in the Inmarsat, Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik
satellite systems (2001)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 51, FM 787, shortwave 4 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:
373 (plus 8,042 repeaters) (1995)
Internet country code: .de
Internet hosts: 16.494 million (2007)
Internet users: 38.6 million (2006)
This information comes from the CIA
World Factbook January 2008.
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