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Total subscriptions: 3,700,006
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 41.91 (2019 est.)
Total subscriptions: 10,574,725
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 119.78 (2019 est.)
General assessment: Mobile-cellular subscribership is everywhere; cable networks are very extensive; all telephone applications and Internet services are accessible; broadband is available in all large municipalities; one company is in the process of extending fiber infrastructure to an additional 300,000 premises, affecting some 500 towns, as a consequence the number of DSL lines is likely to fall as customers move to fiber; the govt. vows to spend 1 billion euros to upgrade the national broadband availability; the roll-out of 5G has begun in a test phase in 2019 and is planned to be available nation-wide in 2025 (2020)
Domestic: Developed and efficient; 41 per 100 fixed-line for households, 174 per 100 for companies; 120 per 100 mobile-cellular; broadband
International: Country code - 43; earth stations available in the Astra, Intelsat, Eutelsat satellite systems (2019)
Note 1: The Austrian National Library contains important collections of the Imperial Library of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Empire, as well as of the Austrian Republic; among its more than 12 million items are outstanding holdings of rare books, maps, globes, papyrus, and music; its Globe Museum is the only one in the world note 2