Germany Communications
Germany - Cologne - Dusseldorf - Frankfurt - Munich - Stuttgart - Hamburg - Berlin
Germany communications system can be categorized into telecommunications, radio services, television broadcasting and internet services. Germany is said to posses the most technologically advanced telecommunication system. This consists of both the fixed line users as well as the mobile phone users. As on 2005, there were a total of 55.046 million fixed lines in use and 79.2 million mobile phone connections in the country. After the Second World War, the government of the country has invested huge sums of money to improve and develop its telecommunication system. The country internally is connected by a wide network of automatic telephone exchanges, which are connected by fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable, satellite system and a microwave radio relay.
In the international front, the country is well connected to all the countries of the world by extensive cable facilities both on land and under the sea. It is also connected by a large number of earth stations in Inmarsat, Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems.
Apart from this, the radio service is also good over here. The various radio
broadcast stations include AM51, FM 767 and shortwave 4. The foreign radio service
of the country is provided by Deutsche Welle, which includes DW-TV, DW-Radio,
DW-World.de and DW-Akademia. The country has two television broadcasting stations
called ARD and ZDF. In fact, ZDF is the largest broadcasting station in Europe.
Internet services are also available over here. There are a large number of
internet service providers in the country. There were around 50.616 million
internet users in the country in 2006, which clearly shows its importance as
one of the major parts of the Germany communications system. Germany also has
a postal service, which operates from Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00
p.m.
The Germany communications system is extremely efficient and well developed and thus makes communication with people all across the world easy.