Warning: Parts of this data are out-of-date. Most analog telephone exchanges have been replaced with digital technology.

Telephones - main lines in use: 11 million (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

13 million (2002)

Telephone system: underdeveloped and outmoded system in the process of being overhauled; partial privatization of the state-owned telephone monopoly (TPSA) is underway; the long waiting list for main line telephone service has resulted in a boom in mobile cellular telephone use
domestic: cable, open wire, and microwave radio relay; 3 cellular networks; local exchanges 56.6% digital
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat, NA Eutelsat, 2 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), and 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 14, FM 777, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios: 20.2 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 179 + 256 repeaters (1995)

Televisions: 13.05 million (1997)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 19 (1999)

Internet Users: 12 million (2003)

Country code (Top level domain): PL

See also : Poland