The telephone system in

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, including mobile, data and Internet is operated exclusively by the Andorran national telecommunications company, Andorra Telecom, formerly known as Servei de Telecomunicacions d'Andorra (STA). The same company is also responsible for managing the technical infrastructure and national broadcasting networks for radio and television, both analogue and digital. At one time, Andorra shared the country code of France (+33), and also had a special routing code for calls from Spain, but now has its own country calling code, 376.

Telephone

Telephones - main lines in use: 37,200 (2007)
''country comparison to the world:'' 171 Telephones - mobile cellular: 68,500 (2007)
''country comparison to the world:'' 187 Telephone system:
''domestic:'' modern system with microwave radio relay connections between exchanges
''international:'' landline circuits to France and Spain

Radio

Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 1, shortwave 0 (easy access to radio and television broadcasts originating in France and Spain) (2007) There are two abandoned high power mediumwave broadcasting facilities, situated at Encamp and on Pic Blanc. Radios: 16,000 (1997)

Television

Television broadcast stations: 1 (2007) Televisions: 27,000 (1997) As announced on 25 September 2007 all analogue transmissions ceased. Television services are now provided by Televisió Digital Terrestre (TDT), which as well as broadcasting the one Andorran channel, broadcasts channels from

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and

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Internet

Internet access is available only through the national telephone company, Andorra Telecom (formerly STA). Access was first provided in the 1990s by dial-up Internet access, dial-up, but this has since been mostly replaced throughout the country by

ADSL Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) is a type of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide. ...

at a fixed speed of 2 Mbit/s, and in metropolitan areas of the country by fibre to the home at a fixed speed of 100 Mbit/s. The whole country was to have Fibre-Optic to the Home at a minimum speed of 100 Mbit/s by 2010,SOM Newsletter, March 2009. and the availability was complete in June 2012 although actual available bandwidth to the end user never exceeds 10Mbit/s. Internet service providers (ISPs): 1 Internet hosts: 23,368 (2008)
''country comparison to the world:'' 90 Internet users: 58,900 (2007)
''country comparison to the world:'' 161

Country codes Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The term ' ...

: AD (1997) Country calling code: 376

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