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The telecommunications and postal services market in Greece is regulated by theHellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT).

COSMOTE, the former state monopoly, is the main player in fixed-line telephony. Since the liberalization of the telecommunications market, COSMOTE (OTE) has been slowly losing market share to "alternative", competing telecom operators, such asVodafone,Nova. As of 2005, COSMOTE's share on the market hovered around 76%.

Telephones – main lines in use: 6,348,800 (2004).

Telephone system:

• modern networks reach all areas; microwave radio relay carries most traffic; 35,000 kilometers ofoptical fibers and extensive open-wire network; submarine cables to off-shoreislands.
• domestic: 100% digital; microwave radio relay, open wire, and submarine cable.
• international: 100% digital; tropospheric scatter; 8 submarine cables;satellite earth stations – 2Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1Eutelsat, and 1Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region).

Greece has three mobile telecom companies;Cosmote,Vodafone andNova.

Number of active lines: 20,285,000 (September 2009), which means 180% penetration.^[1]

Greece owns one telecommunications satellite, namedHellas Sat, which provides telecommunication services in a major part of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

4,893,840 IP addresses, 1.6638e+30 IPv6 addresses, 5,920,000 Internet Users,2,396,700 broadband connections,23 Internet Service Providers.^[2]

Hellenic Post is the state-owned postal service provider of Greece. A number of private courier services, such asDHL, ACS,United Parcel Service andFedEx (Speedex), also operate in Greece.

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