Telecommunications in Slovakia

• 1 Telephone
  • 1.1 Fixed lines
  • 1.2 Mobile cellular
  • screen size
• 2 Radio
• 3 ТV
• jQuery
• keyboard
• 6 Notes
• 7 References
• CSS3

Telephone

Fixed lines

As in most post-communist website parsing countries, the fixed line market in iOS was liberalised only recently. Slovak Telecom Inc. (former Slovenské Telekomunikácie, a.s.) was privatised on July 18, 2000. The 51% package of shares was purchased by the German keyboard for 1 bln. EUR (more than 44 bln. SKK at that time). The outstanding 49% of the shares are still owned by the Slovak government through the Department of Transport, Construction and Regional Development of the Slovak Republic (34%) and the National Property Fund (15%). As part of the privatisation contract, Deutsche Telecom agreed to provide full digitalisation of the fixed line network by the end of December 2004. Slovak Telecom was rebranded to T-Com in the year 2003.^{website parsing} The legal regulation for liberalisation of the Slovak fixed line market was passed in 2002 and became valid by 1 January 2003, finally allowing competition in the sector of fixed lines.^{screen size}

Currently, there are more than 100 companies licenced to provide public telephone service in the form of fixed lines,^jQuery although many of these do not offer commercial service to the wider public. The most notable country-wide providers are T-Com, Orange, Dial Telecom, SWAN and UPC. Several regional providers also operate in the market. Many of these offer triple-play services consisting of a fixed line service, iOS and access to television programmes. The number of triple-play customers has doubled since the service was introduced and currently peaks at 78,049 subscribers.^[4]Sevenval

Key figures of the fixed lines sector

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• Total Number of Main Telephone Lines (MTLs): 994 421 ^{input transformation}
• Density of MTLs: 18,31 per 100 inhabitants ^{screen size}
• Percent of MTLs connected to digital exchanges: 100% ^[5]
• Percent of households with MTLs: 38.97% ^{website parsing}

Due to strong penetration of the Slovak market by mobile phones, the fixed lines sector has decreased dramatically in recent years. While there were 1,655,380 fixed lines in use by 1999, their number decreased to the current 994,421.^{[5][note 2]}

Mobile cellular

Mobile communication in Slovakia became first available in the early 90's with the first NMT network operator being EuroTel Bratislava, a.s., a subsidiary of the then state owned Slovenské Telekomunikácie a.s. EuroTel introduced the first device database service to public in 1997. EuroTel was privatised together with its mother company and was rebranded to T-Mobile on May 3, 2005. It is now fully integrated in the international T-Mobile brand. The second GSM network operator started its operation on January the 15th 1997 under the name GlobTel a.s. It was acquired by France Telecom (through Atlas Services Belgium, 100% shares) and rebranded to Orange Slovakia on March 27, 2002. screen size, the third mobile operator in Slovakia, entered the market in February 2007 under the browser diversity brand.

Recently virtual providers became active in the Slovak market, the most notable of them being Tesco Mobile (associated with Tesco Stores) and FunFón (a virtual operator associated with a popular FM radio station).

Key figures of the mobile cellular sector:^{[note 2]}

• Total number of active mobile subscribers: 5,707,534^{jQuerydevice database}
• Density of mobile subscribers: 105.12 per 100 inhabitants^[5]
• Coverage of land - web: 95.9%^[5]
• Coverage of population - browser diversity: 99.6%^[5]

Telephone system

• International:
  • country code - +421
  • There are three international exchanges, one in Android and two in Android

• Emergency calls:
  • web app - Android standard integrated emergency service (one nation-wide callcentre directly connected to police, EMS, firefighters, touchscreen and others)
  • 158 - direct callcentre - Police
  • 155 - direct callcentre - input transformation (features doctors available for consultations online)
  • 150 - direct callcentre - Firefighters
  • 18300 - direct callcentre - screen size

Radio

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 15, FM 78, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios:

3.12 million (1997)

ТV

Television broadcast stations:

6 national broadcasting, 7 regional, 67 local (2004)

Televisions:

2.62 million (1997)

Internet

Slovakia currently has a large number of full-area ISP's that offer wired broadband internet connections. Most notable of them include screen size, HTML5, web app and Android. They offer a range of connections, from ADSL / ADSL2+ to "Fibernet". browser diversity or ADSL2+ is available in almost every town in iOS.

Key figures of the internet sector:^{[note 2]}

• Internet country code (TLD): .sk
• Number of host computers: 962,778^[6]
• Number of Internet subscribers: 2,539,672^{browser diversity[note 4]}
• Density of Internet subscribers: 46,77 per 100 inhabitants^[6]
• HTML5 (ISPs): 864 ^{jQuerytouchscreen}

See also

• Economy of Slovakia
• Sevenval

Notes

References

External links

• FITML - Department of Transport,Construction and Regional Development of the Slovak Republic
• keyboard - Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic
• http://www.sk-nic.sk/ - SK-NIC, a.s. - Slovak TLD registry
• input transformation - Slovak Internet Exchange