Main City Codes:
Amadora 1, Braga 253, Caldas D R 262, Coimbra 239, Heroismo 295, Horta 292, Lisbon 21, Madeira Is 291, 296; Porto 22, Setubal 265
Mobile Phone Codes:
Optimus 93, TMN 96, Telecel 91
Communications: Portugal
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 5.3 million (yearend 1998)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 3,074,194 (1999)
- Telephone system:
- general assessment: undergoing rapid development in recent years, Portugal's telephone system, by the end of 1998, achieved a state-of-the-art network with broadband, high-speed capabilities and a main line telephone density of 53%
- domestic: integrated network of coaxial cables, open-wire, microwave radio relay, and domestic satellite earth stations
- international: 6 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to Azores; note - an earth station for Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region) is planned
- Internet country code:
- .pt
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 16 (2000)
- Internet users:
- 4.4 million (2002)
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