Georgia

Communications

Airmail service was introduced to Georgia about 1930, and since then the quantity of mail has increased enormously.

As of 2001, 93.2% of Georgian residences had telephones.

In 2003, Georgia had 106 major radio stations, 24 AM and 82 FM. There were 37 major television stations in the same year. Atlanta had 1,774,720 television-owning households in 1999, 70% of which received cable.

On 1 June 1980, Atlanta businessman Ted Turner inaugurated the independent Cable News Network (CNN), which made round-the-clock news coverage available to 4,100 cable television systems throughout the US. By 1985, CNN was available to 32.3 million households in the US through 7,731 cable television systems and was broadcast to 22 other countries. By the late 1980s, CNN had become well known worldwide. In addition, Turner broadcasts CNN Headline News. A total of 183,093 Internet domain names were registered in Georgia by the year 2000.