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| Telephones - main lines in use: 3,186,731 (2001) Telephones - mobile cellular: 2.754 million (2003) Telephone system: general assessment: extensive but antiquated domestic: more than two-thirds of the lines are residential; telephone service is available in most villages; 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 international: direct dialing to 58 countries; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region); 2 Intelsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions) International dialing code: ++359 Cellular mobile operators: There are two GSM 900/1800 mobile operators - M-Tel and GloBul. Both of them cover about 92 percent of the surface of Bulgaria. You can view the map of coverage on the graphic below. The blue represents the coverage. Radio broadcast stations: AM 31, FM 63, shortwave 2 (2001) Radios: 7.51 million (2002) Television broadcast stations: 39 (plus 1,242 repeaters) (2001) Televisions: 5.31 million (2002) Internet country code: .bg Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 200 (2001) Internet users: 1,872,547 (2003) |
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| The coverage of two Bulgarian mobile cellular operators |