Telecommunications in Greece

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 as Vodafone, Nova.

Telephone system: Greece has three mobile telecom companies; Cosmote, Vodafone and Nova.

[1] Greece owns one telecommunications satellite, named Hellas Sat, which provides telecommunication services in a major part of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

[2] Hellenic Post is the state-owned postal service provider of Greece.