Telecommunications in Italy

The most important telecommunications in Italy are telephone, radio, television and the Internet.

Telephone companies

List of telephone companies in Italy:

Radio stations

Television channels

RAI – national

RAI – regional

Mediaset

Internet

The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Italy is .it and is sponsored by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states. Currently Internet access is available to businesses and home users in various forms, including dial-up, fibre, cable, DSL and wireless.

According to netindex.com, the Italian average for fixed connections is below the global average (96.98 Mbit/s Down and 51.28 Mbit/s Up – at January 2021) with an average speed of 79.62 Mbit/s Down and 31.41 Mbit/s in upload (consideration based on the public data available at: http://www.speedtest.net/global-index/italy – January 2021).

Statistics

Telephones - main lines in use:^[1] 19.52 million (2019)
Telephones - mobile cellular:^[1] 79.48 million (2019)
Telephone system:^[1] well-developed, fully automated telephone and data services
- domestic:^[1] high-capacity cable and microwave radio relay trunks
- international:^[1] satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (with a total of 5 antennas - 3 for Atlantic Ocean and 2 for Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region), and NA Eutelsat; 21 submarine cables.
Radio broadcast stations:^[1] AM about 100, FM about 4,600, shortwave 9 (1998)
Radios: 50.5 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:^[1] 358 (plus 4,728 repeaters) (1995)
Televisions: 30.5 million (1997)
Internet Hosts:^[1] 22.152 million (2009)
Internet users:^[1] 24.992 million (2008)
Country code (Top-level domain): .it

References

^ a b c d e f g h i CIA World Fact Book