Full IDD is available. Country code: 420. There are public telephone booths, including special kiosks for international calls. Surcharges can be quite high on long-distance calls from hotels. Most of the public telephone boxes take phonecards, which can be purchased at all Telecom points of sale and at newsagent and tobacconist shops.

Roaming agreements exist with most international mobile phone companies. Coverage is good.

There are Internet cafes in Prague and other cities.

Private media in the Czech Republic mushroomed in the 1990s, and private radio and TV stations provide stiff competition for public broadcasters. Public TV broadcaster Ceska Televize (CT) operates two networks and a 24-hour news channel. Czech public radio, Cesky Rozhlas (CRo), operates three national networks as well as local services. Two major private television channels broadcast nationally and there are more than 70 private radio stations. Though press freedom is protected by a charter of basic rights, the media are not always considered editorially independent. An angry dispute over the control of Czech public television at the end of 2000 showed that efforts to rid state media of political interference were ongoing.
Press: The Prague Post and Prague Tribune (both weekly) are published in English. The main Czech dailies include Mladá Fronta Dnes, Právo and Lidove Noviny.
TV: Ceska Televize is public and operates mainstream channel CT1 and cultural channel CT2; CT 24 is a public news channel; TV Nova and Prima are commercial channels.
Radio: Public broadcaster Czech Radio operates national and regional networks; Radio Prague has programmes in a number of languages including English; Frekvence 1 and Radio Impuls are private national stations.

Main post office in Prague: 14 Jindrisská Street, Prague 1. 24-hour service: Hybernska 15, Prague 1. Post office hours: Mon-Fri 0800-1800.