Telecommunications in the Czech Republic

Template:Short description There are telecommunications in the Czech Republic.

Office

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} There is a Czech Telecommunication Office (Czech: Český Telekomunikační Úřad) called CTU.<ref>Federal Communications Commission, Second IBDR Report, DA 11-732, p 7429.</ref><ref>CTU</ref>

Companies

Telecom companies have included České Radiokomunikace, O2 Czech Republic (formerly Telefonica O2 Czech Republic),<ref>Plunkett's Telecommunications Industry Almanac, Telefonica O2 Czech Republic and Ceske Radiokomunikace</ref> Vodafone Czech Republic (formerly Oskar Mobil a.s.), CETIN, CS Link, Eurotel, Skylink and Telekom Austria Czech Republic.

Telephones

Template:See also The number of main line telephones in use was 3,741,492 in 1998,<ref name=CWF00p135>The World Factbook 2000, p 135.</ref> 3.869 million in 2000,<ref name=CWF04>The World Factbook 2004, p 147.</ref> 3.626 million in 2003,<ref name=CWF05>The World Factbook 2005, p 150.</ref> 2.888 million in 2006,<ref name=CWF09>The World Factbook 2009,p 178.</ref> and 1,294,806 in 2021.<ref>Czechia. The World Factbook. 19 December 2023.</ref> The number of mobile cellular phones was 965,476 in 1998,<ref name=CWF00p135/> 4.346 million in 2000,<ref name=CWF04/> 9.708 million in 2003,<ref name=CWF05/> and 13.075 million in 2007.<ref name=CWF09/>

Copper subscriber systems have been improved with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital signals. Trunk systems include fibre-optic cable and microwave radio relay.<ref name=CWF04/>

Television

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} There were 3,428,817 televisions in December 1999<ref name=CWF00p136>The World Factbook 2000, p 136.</ref> and 3,405,834 televisions in December 2000.<ref name=CWF01>The World Factbook 2001, p 137.</ref> There were 150 television broadcast stations and 1,434 repeaters in 2000.<ref name=CWF04/>

Radio

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} There were 3,173,856 radios in December 1999,<ref name=CWF00p136/> and 3,159,134 radios in December 2000.<ref name=CWF01/> In 2000, the radio broadcast stations were AM 31, FM 304 and shortwave 17.<ref name=CWF04/> In 1999, they were AM 21, FM 199 and shortwave 1.<ref name=CWF00p136/>

Internet

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} The number of internet users was 2.69 million in 2001,<ref name=CWF04/> 5.1 million in 2005,<ref name=CWF07>The World Factbook 2007, p 161.</ref> 4.4 million in 2007<ref name=CWF09/> and 7.6 million in 2012.<ref>ITU</ref> There were 35 Internet Service Providers in 1999,<ref name=CWF00p136/> and more than three hundred in 2000.<ref name=CWF04/>

The internet country code is .cz.<ref name=CWF04/>

References

• Lubos Lauer. Regulation in Telecommunications in the Czech Republic. Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH KG. 2012. Google
• F Hesoun. Liberalisation, Regulation and Telecommunication Market in the Czech Republic. Mimeo, Praha. 1994.
• Kirsten Rodine-Hardy. Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications. Cambridge University Press. 2013. Pages 8, 26, 37 to 40, 79 to 82, 84, 86 to 88, 90, 91, 97, 98, 100, 101, 103, 104, 106, 108, 112, 119, 124, 125, 166, 171, 179 to 181, 184 and 189.
• Karl-Ernst Schenk, Jörn Kruse and Jürgen Müller. Telecommunications Take-off in Transition Countries. Avebury. 1997. Google
• Robert Bruce, Ioannis Kessides and Lothar Kneifel. "Overview of Telecommunications Developments in the Czech Republic". Overcoming Obstacles to Liberalization of the Telecom Sector in Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Hungary. World Bank Technical Paper 440. Chapter 5. Pages 25 to 29.
• "Background Report on Regulatory Reform in the Telecommunications Industry". Regulatory Reform in the Czech Republic. OECD. Page 311 et seq.