Main City Codes:
Amsterdam 20, Arnhem 26, de Meern 30, Den Bosch 73, Deventer 570, Eindhoven 40, Groningen 50, Haarlem 23, Heemstede 23, Hillegersberg 10, Hilversum 35, Hoensbroek 45, Hoogkerk 50, Hoogvliet 10, Houten 30, IJsselstein 30, Leiden 71, Loosduinen (Loosduinen is part of Den Haag) 70, Nieuwegein 30, Nijmegen 24, Oud Zuilen (Oud Zuilen is part of Utrecht) 30, Rotterdam 10, The Hague (Den Haag) 70, Utrecht 30, Vught 73, Zeist 30
Mobile Phone Codes:
Netherlands mobile codes 6, 62, 63, 64, 65, 650, 651, 653, 654, 655, 66, 67, 68, 69, 80, 85, 9
Communications: Netherlands
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 9,132,400 (1999)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 4,081,891 (April 1999)
- Telephone system:
- general assessment: highly developed and well maintained
- domestic: the existing system of multi-conductor cables is gradually being replaced by fiber-optic cables; the density of cellular telephone traffic is rapidly increasing and further modernization of the system is expected in 2001, with the introduction of the third generation of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
- international: 5 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions) (1996)
- Internet country code:
- .nl
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 52 (2000)
- Internet users:
- 9.73 million (2002)
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