Bulgaria - Communications

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Bulgaria is located Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey. The climate is temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry summers. The terrain is mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 2.3 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 9.897 million (2007)

Telephone system

This entry includes a brief general assessment of the system with details on the domestic and international components. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry
Telephone system - general assessment : an extensive but antiquated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era; quality has improved; the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 when alternative fixed-line operators were given access to its network; a drop in fixed-line connections in recent years has been more than offset by a sharp increase in mobile-cellular telephone use fostered by multiple service providers; the number of cellular telephone subscriptions now exceeds the population
Telephone system - domestic : a fairly modern digital cable trunk line now connects switching centers in most of the regions; the others are connected by digital microwave radio relay
Telephone system - international : country code - 359; submarine cable provides connectivity to Ukraine and Russia; a combination submarine cable and land fiber-optic system provides connectivity to Italy, Albania, and Macedonia; satellite earth stations - 3 (1 Intersputnik in the Atlantic Ocean region, 2 Intelsat in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions) (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 31, FM 63, shortwave 2 (2001)

Radios

Radios : 4.51 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 39 (plus 1,242 repeaters) (2001)

Televisions

Televisions : 3.31 million (1997)

Internet country code

This entry includes the two-letter codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).
Internet country code : .bg

Internet hosts

This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity.
Internet hosts : 513,470 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 200 (2001)

Internet users

This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months.
Internet users : 1.899 million (2007)

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