GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

Telephones - main lines in use:
5.975 million (2008)
[see also: Telephones - main lines in use country ranks ]

Telephones - mobile cellular:
13.799 million (2008)
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks ]

Telephone system:
general assessment: adequate, modern networks reach all areas; good mobile telephone and international service
domestic: microwave radio relay trunk system; extensive open-wire connections; submarine cable to offshore islands
international: country code - 30; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to Europe, Middle East, and Asia; a number of smaller submarine cables provide connectivity to various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Cyprus; tropospheric scatter; satellite earth stations - 4 (2 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean, 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat - Indian Ocean region)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 26, FM 88, shortwave 4 (1998)

Television - broadcast stations:
36 (plus 1,341 repeaters); also 2 stations in the American Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (1995)
[see also: Television - broadcast stations country ranks ]

Internet country code:
.gr

Internet hosts:
2.342 million (2009)
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]