The most important telecommunications in Italy are telephone, radio, television and the Internet.
Telephone companies
Radio stations
Television channels
See also: RAI § TV channels
RAI – national
In high definition and ultra definition
RAI – regional
Mediaset See also: Mediaset
Internet
The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Italy is .it and is sponsored by National Research Council. The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states. Currently Internet access is available to businesses and home users in various forms, including dial-up, fiber, cable, DSL and wireless. According to netindex.com, the Italian average for fixed connections is below the global average (96.98 Mbit/s download and 51.28 Mbit/s Up) with an average speed of 79.62 Mbit/s download and 31.41 Mbit/s in upload.
Statistics Telephones - main lines in use: 19.52 million (2019) Telephones - mobile cellular: 79.48 million (2019) Telephone system: well-developed, fully automated telephone and data services domestic: high-capacity cable and microwave radio relay trunks international: satellite Earth stations - 3 Intelsat (with a total of 5 antennas - 3 for Atlantic Ocean and 2 for Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region), and NA Eutelsat; 21 submarine cables. Radio broadcast stations: AM about 100, FM about 4,600, shortwave 9 (1998) Radios: 50.5 million (1997) Television broadcast stations: 358 (plus 4,728 repeaters) (1995) Televisions: 30.5 million (1997) Internet hosts: 22.152 million (2009) Internet users: 24.992 million (2008) Country code (Top-level domain): .it
See also Media of Italy
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