Introduction
How is the communication system in Germany? Here, Broadcast media include a mixture of publicly operated and privately owned TV and radio stations; 70 national and regional public broadcasters compete with nearly 400 privately owned national and regional TV stations; more than 90% of households have cable or satellite TV; hundreds of radio stations including multiple national radio networks, regional radio networks, and a large number of local radio stations. What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in Germany
Internet country code .de
Broadband - fixed subscriptions
Total 36,215,303 (2020 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 43 (2020 est.)
Internet users
Total 75.53 million (2021 est.)
Percent of population 91% (2021 est.)
Telecommunication systems
General assessment With one of Europe’s largest telecom markets, Germany hosts a number of significant operators which offer effective competition in the mobile and broadband sectors; the German mobile market is driven by mobile data, with the number of mobile broadband subscribers having increased rapidly in recent years; with LTE now effectively universally available, considerable progress has recently been made in building out 5G networks (2022)
Domestic 46 per 100 for fixed-line and 128 per 100 for mobile-cellular subscriptions (2021)
International Country code - 49; landing points for SeaMeWe-3, TAT-14, AC-1, CONTACT-3, Fehmarn Balt, C-Lion1, GC1, GlobalConnect-KPN, and Germany-Denmark 2 & 3 - submarine cables to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia; as well as earth stations in the Inmarsat, Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems (2019)
Telephones - fixed lines
Total subscriptions 38.58 million (2022 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 46 (2022 est.)
Telephones - mobile cellular
Total subscriptions 104.4 million (2022 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 125 (2022 est.)
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Germany is found in Western Europe