Telecommunications in France
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Telephones - main lines in use: 33.91 million (year end 2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 41.68 million (year end 2003)
Telephone system: highly developed
domestic: extensive cable and microwave radio relay; extensive introduction of fiber-optic cable; domestic satellite system
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (with total of 5 antennas - 2 for Indian Ocean and 3 for Atlantic Ocean), NA Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region); HF radiotelephone communications with more than 20 countries
Radio broadcast stations: AM 41, FM about 3,500 (this figure is an approximation and includes many repeaters), shortwave 2 (1998)
Radios: 55.3 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 584 (plus 9,676 repeaters) (1995)
Televisions: 34.8 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 62 (2000)
Internet hosts: 2,396,761 (2004)
Internet users: 21.9 million (2003)
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[edit] Mobile networks
France currently has 3 mobile networks, Orange, Bouygues Télécom and SFR all of which are licenced for GSM and UMTS. By comparison to other parts of Europe, this is few (for the number of actual operators, using their own physical network). For example, Ireland currently has 4 licenced operators with their own networks despite a smaller and sparser population than France's making improved coverage less economically rewarding. However, France has a number of MVNOs which increases competition.
In France, the satellite telecommunications system TELECOM 1 (TC1) will provide high-speed, broadband transfer of digital data between different sections of subscribing companies. Conventional telecommunications links between continental France and its overseas departments will also be supplied.
[edit] Broadband Internet access
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Communications in France - at Discover France (English)
- Phone, Fax and Minitel Services in France (English)
- E-mail and the Internet in France (English)
- Print and Broadcast Media in France (English)
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