Telecommunications in Hungary - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Telephones - main lines in use:
3,577,300 (2004)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
11,000,000 (109%)(2008)

Telephone system:

General assessment:
The telephone system has been modernized and is capable of satisfying all requests for telecommunication service.

Domestic:
The system is Digitized and highly automated; trunk services are carried by fiber-optic cable and digital microwave radio relay; a program for fiber-optic subscriber connections was initiated in 1996; heavy use is made of mobile cellular telephones.

International:
Country code - 36; Hungary has fiber-optic cable connections with all neighboring countries; the international switch is in Budapest; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Inmarsat, 1 very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system of ground terminals.

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 17, FM 57, shortwave 3 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
35 (plus 161 low-power repeaters) (1995)

Internet country code:
.hu

Internet hosts:
1,000,000 broadband (2007)

Internet users:
4.5 million (2006)

Broadband Internet access

ADSL appeared in Hungary in 2001, and ADSL2+ in late 2005.

The main broadband internet providers are: T-Home (formerly T-Com/T-Online

T-Online

T-Online, a former subsidiary and now business unit of Deutsche Telekom, is the biggest internet service provider in Germany. It evolved out of the proprietary German Bildschirmtext information service in 1995...

/Matáv), Chello

Chello

chello is the brand of internet service provider-activities of Liberty Global Europe , a provider of broadband internet access via cable in Europe, with estimated 1.3 million customers across its markets. LGE operates in 15 European, 4 Latin American and 2 Asian/Pacific countries...

(UPC

UPC Broadband

UPC Broadband is a Pan-European Communications company owned by Liberty Global and is active in several European countries providing bundled cable television, internet and telephone services....

), Invitel, Externet, Emitel, Monortel, Pantel, TVnet, TvNetWork, VIVAnet, DIGI. Smaller providers mainly available in the city of Budapest, like TigerNet or HDSnet.

The number of subscribers in Hungary has reached 1 million in January 2007.

Telenor

Telenor offers: HSDPA/3G

3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...

/EDGE

Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...

/GPRS solutions to use your cell phone to connect to the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

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Technologies: WCDMA (=Wideband Code Division Multiple Access other name: „UMTS”), CDMA 2000, CDMA TDD.

The 3G

service available in major cities! These cities are: Budapest

Budapest

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, Debrecen

Debrecen

Debrecen , is the second largest city in Hungary after Budapest. Debrecen is the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar county.- Name :...

, Nyíregyháza

Nyíregyháza

- Tourist sights :Nyíregyháza also has several museums and exhibitions, showing the city's rich cultural heritage.* Collection of the International Medallion Art and Small Sculpture Creative Community of Nyíregyháza-Sóstó – periodic exhibitions of works of contemporary artists-Twin towns — Sister...

, Miskolc

Miskolc

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, Kecskemét

Kecskemét

Kecskemét is a city in the central part of Hungary. It is the 8th largest city of the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun.Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country's third-largest city, Szeged, 86 kilometres from both of them and almost equal distance from the two...

, Szeged

Szeged

' is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county town of Csongrád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary....

, Pécs

Pécs

Pécs is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the south-west of the country, close to its border with Croatia. It is the administrative and economical centre of Baranya county...

, Siófok

Siófok

Siófok is a city in Hungary on the southern bank of Lake Balaton in Somogy County. The city is one of Hungary's most popular holiday destinations, famous for its beaches and nightlife. Siófok is one of the richest municipalities of Hungary due to tourism...

, Veszprém

Veszprém

Veszprém is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a city with county rights. It lies approximately north of the Lake Balaton. It is the administrative center of the county of the same name.-Location:...

, Székesfehérvár

Székesfehérvár

Székesfehérvár is a city in central Hungary and is the 9th largest in the country. Located around southwest of Budapest. It is inhabited by 101,973 people , with 136,995 in the Székesfehérvár Subregion. The city is the centre of Fejér county and the regional centre of Central Transdanubia...

, Tatabánya

Tatabánya

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, Szombathely

Szombathely

Szombathely is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria...

, Győr

Gyor

-Climate:-Main sights:The ancient core of the city is Káptalan Hill at the confluence of three rivers: the Danube, Rába and Rábca. Püspökvár, the residence of Győr’s bishops can be easily recognised by its incomplete tower. Győr’s oldest buildings are the 13th-century dwelling tower and the...

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source(English)

T-Mobile

(GSM/EDGE

Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...

/3G

/HSDPA)

3G

service available in major cities. source(English)

Vodafone

Vodafone offers: HSDPA/3G

/GPRS solutions to use your cell phone to connect to the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

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The 3G

service available in many towns.

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