As of 2001, 97.7% of Minnesota's occupied housing units had telephones. Commercial broadcasting began with the opening of the first radio station in 1922; as of 2003 there were 136 major radio stations—33 AM and 103 FM—and 20 major television stations. The Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area had 1,481,050 television households, 54% of which received cable.
By the year 2000, a total of 116,792 Internet domain names had been registered in Minnesota.