Telephones - main lines in use:
3.285 million (2008)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
10.816 million (2008)

Telephone system:
general assessment: highly developed and efficient
domestic: fixed-line subscribership has been in decline since the mid-1990s with mobile-cellular subscribership eclipsing it by the late 1990s; the fiber-optic net is very extensive; all telephone applications and Internet services are available
international: country code - 43; satellite earth stations - 15; in addition, there are about 600 VSATs (very small aperture terminals) (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 65 (plus several hundred repeaters), shortwave 1 (2001)

Television broadcast stations:
10 (plus more than 1,000 repeaters) (2001)

Internet country code:
.at

Internet hosts:
2.992 million (2009)

Internet users:
5.937 million (2008)