Austria: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 3,609,900 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 42 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 13.471 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 155 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: highly developed and efficient domestic: fixed-line subscribership has been in decline since the mid-1990s with mobile-cellular subscribership eclipsing it by the late 1990s; the fiber-optic net is very extensive; all telephone applications and Internet services are available; broadband is avail international: country code - 43; earth stations available in the Intelsat, Eutelsat satellite systems (2016) |
Broadcast media | worldwide cable and satellite TV are available; the public incumbent ORF competes with three other major, several regional domestic, and up to 400 international TV stations; TV coverage is in principle 100%, but only 90% use broadcast media; Internet stre (2016) |
Internet country code | .at |
Internet users | total: 7.273 million percent of population: 83.9% (July 2015 est.) |