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Telecommunications in San Marino

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Phone booth in the City of San Marino

This article provides an outline of the telecommunications infrastructure in San Marino.

Telephone

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San Marino Telecom (SMT)

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Founded in 2005, is owned by Simon Murray, and operates on the mobile and fixed-line telephony market.

Telecom Italia San Marino (TISM)

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It is the main telecommunications company in the Republic, founded in 1992 as Intelcom and former monopolist of the Sammarinese telephony market. It offers mobile and fixed-line telephony services, Internet data center services and top-level domain registration authority (.sm).

Telefonia Mobile Sammarinese (TMS)

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Created in 1999, it is 51% controlled by Telecom Italia San Marino, from which it uses the infrastructure for its mobile telephony services.

Telenet

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Created in 1999, it is the second fixed-line telephone operator in the Republic, and offers alternative Internet services to those offered by the former monopolist Telecom Italia San Marino.

Television and radio

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San Marino has only one television station, San Marino RTV, which is owned by a company with the same name.[1] In 1997, there were approximately 9,000 television sets in the country.[relevant?]

San Marino has two radio networks, Radio San Marino and Radio San Marino Classic, also owned by San Marino RTV.[2] In 1997, there were approximately 16,000 radios in San Marino.

Internet

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In 2010 there were 17,000 Internet users in San Marino.[3] San Marino's Internet domain is .sm.

References

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  1. ^ "San Marino RTV-Television (Italian)". Archived from the original on 2008-12-30. Retrieved 2011-04-16.
  2. ^ "San Marino RTV-Radio (Italian)".
  3. ^ "European Internet Usage-San Marino".