Greece Travel Guía

Phones
OTE is the official operator of telecommunications of Greece, he is the player main (actor) in the telephony of fixed line. The company covers the entire country of digital PSTN and telephone lines ISDN and also it offers ADSL in all the urban areas. OTE is a group of possession of companies, in addition to the company of fixed line OTE, AN ISP (Otenet), a company of mobile phone (Cosmote) and many other companies including OTE the International Investments that in its shift possess many telcos in Europe of the Southeast (Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, etc).

• Phones - main lines in employment: 6,348,800 (2004) * Phones of cellular mobile: Greece has four mobile companies of telecommunication; Cosmote, Vodafone, TIM and Telecommunication. The number of active lines is 12,500,000 (the December, 2005).

Telephone system

• General consideration: Wide and Modern networks reach all the areas; the radio link microwave takes most of traffic; 20.000 kilometers of optical fibre and open extensive network of cable; submarine cables to islands in the exterior.
• Domestic Telephone and international Mobile good service: 100 % digitalis; radio link microwave, open cable, and submarine cable.
• Submarine cable to international islands in the exterior: 100 % digitalis; tropospheric they disperse; 8 submarine cables; stations of satellite of the ground - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Eutelsat, and 1 Inmarsat (region of Indian Ocean).

Newspapers
At present, the press is the most important second information source for Greeks (after the television), and they are extremely concentrated on the hands of few publishers. There is a whole of 88 newspapers in the circulation, 22 are these 9 the morning, 15 late, Sunday and 17 weekly newspapers. In the category of specializing newspapers there is six financial newspapers and 19 periodic of sport. Lambrakis the Organization is the biggest company of mass media in Greece, with interests to the newspaper and the publishing industry of magazine and the impression, to travel agencies (member companies), terrestrial stations of television (Gentle the Channel), studies of production and distribution agencies of press.

Radio and TV
The democracy restoration in 1974 brought new impetuses to the Greek mass media scenery. The television did to itself the head office of information and hospitality, this way gaining a significant role in the daily life of the people. Today, the television is a well established feature of Greek contemporary society, who has assumed a central role in lives of the people. This has become the main source of information, hospitality and culture for the masses public. Today, there are three public channels and almost 150 private channels (most of these is regional / local). The state radio and the organization of diffusion of television are ERT (Elliniki Radiofonia kai Tileorasi - the Greek Radio and the Television). The station preserves 3 national stations of television Et 1, the NETWORK (Nea Elliniki Tileorasi) and Et 3 that is based out of Thessaloniki. In January, 2006, ERT threw the Terrestrial Digital Television with 3 channels. About March, 2006, at least 65 % of the Greek inhabitants will be capable of seeing the free Digital TV with the employment of top boxes of game. ERT also handles 7 national radio stations, including the AGE 5, the Voice (the Vote) of Greece, which spreads internationally route the short wave. ERT is based on Athens.

The first radio station not pirate deprived to spread in Greece was Atenea 9,84 DE, in 1987. The private television begun in November, 1989 when the Channel of Gentle began to work. In this moment, more than 1,000 radio stations and approximately 150 television stations diffusion in Greece. The diffusion of digital satellite began in 1999 for a corporation Nova called. Radioes: 5.02 (1997) the Television spreads approximately 64 stations (more approximately 1,000 repeaters of low power); also two stations in Network of Armed forces of the EU (1999) Televisions: 2.54 millions (1997).

Postal services
ELTA is the provider of postal public service of Greece. A number of private services of messenger, like ACS and Speedex, also they work in Greece. In general the post office are opened on Monday to Friday of 7.30am to 2pm, although certain main divisions have hours until the evening and Saturday morning.