Full IDD is available. Country code: 358. Local and international calls can be made from booths, hotels and post offices. Many public telephones operate using a pre-paid card purchased from R-kiosks, Sonera shops and some post offices.

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

Public access is available in Internet cafes. There are also many Internet booths in Helsinki.

Finland has embarked on a comprehensive digitisation programme. Analogue TV transmissions are expected to cease in 2007. Public service YLE provides national radio and TV programming. Newspapers are privately owned and reflect a broad spectrum of political views.
Press: There are over 200 daily newspapers, with the most popular including: Aamulehti, Helsingin Sanomat (contains English-language pages), Ilta-Sanomat and Iltalehti. Apu and Seura are weekly illustrated news magazines. Kauppalehti is one of the leading daily business newspapers. There are no English-language newspapers published in Finland, but most UK and US daily newspapers are available, as well as international papers in many different languages.
TV: Yleisradio Oy (YLE) is a public service broadcaster that operates several channels in Finnish and Swedish. MTV3 and Nelonen (Channel 4) are private stations.
Radio: Yleisradio Oy (YLE) is a public service broadcaster that operates radio channels in Finnish, Swedish and Sa'mi (Lappish). Radio Finland is another public, external broadcaster. Commercial stations include Kiss FM, Classic FM and Radio Nova.

Letters and postcards sent by airmail usually take about three days to reach destinations within the rest of Europe. Stamps are available from post offices, bookshops and newspaper shops, stations and hotels. The Central Post Office at Mannerheimintie 11, 00100 Helsinki, is open Mon-Fri 0800-2100, Sat 0900-1800, Sun 1100-2100. General post offices hours: Mon-Fri 0900-1800; closed Saturday, with regional variations.