The telephone system in Andorra

Andorra

Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, , is a small landlocked country in southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. It is the sixth smallest nation in Europe having an area of...

, including mobile, data and Internet is operated exclusively by the Andorran national telecommunications company, Andorra Telecom, formerly known as Servei de Telecomunicacions d'Andorra (STA), which operates with the brand SOM. The same company is also responsible for managing the technical infrastructure and national broadcasting networks for radio and television, both analogue and digital.

At one time, Andorra shared the country code of France (+33), and also had a special routing code for calls from Spain, but now has its own country calling code, 376.

Telephone

Telephones - main lines in use: 37,200 (2007)

country comparison to the world: 171

Telephones - mobile cellular: 68,500 (2007)

country comparison to the world: 187

Telephone system:

domestic: modern system with microwave radio relay connections between exchanges

international: landline circuits to France and Spain

Radio

Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 1, shortwave 0 (easy access to radio and television broadcasts originating in France and Spain) (2007)

There are two abandoned high power mediumwave broadcasting facilities, situated at Encamp and on Pic Blanc

Sud Radio Transmitter Pic Blanc

Sud Radio Transmitter Pic Blanc is a facility for high power medium wave broadcasting on the Pic Blanc, mountain at 1°43'1"E and 42°32'5"N. Sud Radio Transmitter Pic Blanc, situated on the 2650 metre high Pic Blanc mountain in Andorra is the medium wave transmitter in Europe situated highest...

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Radios: 16,000 (1997)

Television

Television broadcast stations: 1 (2007)

Televisions: 27,000 (1997)

As announced on 25 September 2007 all analogue transmissions ceased. Television services are now provided by Televisió Digital Terrestre

Televisió Digital Terrestre

Televisió Digital Terrestre is the terrestrial digital television service in Andorra.On 25 September 2007 at 11pm Andorra became one of the first European countries to switch off all terrestrial analogue transmissions, making TDT the only method of terrestrial TV reception in the country.The...

 (TDT), which as well as broadcasting the one Andorran channel, broadcasts channels from Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 and France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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Internet

Internet access is available only through the national telephone company, SOM (formerly STA). Access was first provided in the 1990s by dial-up, but this has since been mostly replaced throughout the country by ADSL at a fixed speed of 2 Mbit/s, and in metropolitan areas of the country by Fibre-Optic to the Home at a fixed speed of 100 Mbit/s. The whole country will have Fibre-Optic to the Home at a minimum speed of 100 Mbit/s by 2010.

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1

Internet hosts: 23,368 (2008)

country comparison to the world: 90

Internet users: 58,900 (2007)

country comparison to the world: 161

Country codes: AD (1997)

Country calling code: 376