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Other pages in this profile of the Czech Republic:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
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Telephones - main lines in use |
3,217,300 (2005) |
Telephones - mobile cellular |
12.15 million (2006) |
Telephone system |
general assessment: privatization and modernization of the Czech telecommunication system got a late start but is advancing steadily; access to the fixed-line telephone network expanded throughout the 1990s; mobile telephone usage increased sharply beginning in the mid-1990s and there are now about 120 mobile telephones per 100 persons domestic: 93% of exchanges now digital; existing copper subscriber systems enhanced with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital signals; trunk systems include fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay international: country code - 420; satellite earth stations - 2 Intersputnik (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat, 1 Globalstar (2007) |
Radio broadcast stations |
AM 31, FM 304, shortwave 17 (2000) |
Television broadcast stations |
150 (plus 1,434 repeaters) (2000) |
Internet country code |
.cz |
Internet hosts |
1.668 million (2007) |
Internet users |
3.541 million (2006) |
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Airports |
122 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
total: 45 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 10 1,524 to 2,437 m: 13 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 18 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways |
total: 77 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 26 under 914 m: 50 (2007) |
Heliports |
1 (2007) |
Pipelines |
gas 7,010 km; oil 547 km; refined products 94 km (2006) |
Railways |
total: 9,597 km standard gauge: 9,597 km 1.435-m gauge (3,041 km electrified) (2006) |
Roadways |
total: 127,865 km paved: 127,865 km (includes 633 km of expressways) (2006) |
Waterways |
664 km (principally on Elbe, Vltava, Oder, and other navigable rivers, lakes, and canals) (2006) |
Merchant marine |
registered in other countries: 1 (St Vincent and The Grenadines 1) (2007) |
Ports and terminals |
Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem |
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