Landline Telephone
OTE, the former state monopoly, is the main player in fixed-line telephony. Since the liberalization of the telecommunications market, OTE has been slowly losing market share to "alternative", competing telecom operators, such as Vivodi, Q-Telecom, Tellas and Forthnet. As of 2005, OTE's share on the market hovered around 76%.
Telephones - main lines in use: 6,348,800 (2004).
Telephone system:
- modern networks reach all areas; microwave radio relay carries most traffic; 35.000 kilometers of fiber optics and extensive open-wire network; submarine cables to off-shore islands
- domestic: 100% digital; microwave radio relay, open wire, and submarine cable
- international: 100% digital; tropospheric scatter; 8 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region)
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