OTE is the national telecom provider of Greece.

Standing for Hellenic Telecommunication Organization(Οργανισμός Τηλεπικοινωνιών Ελλάδος), OTE is the former monopoly of telecoms in Greece. Now the market is open to competitors and OTE has been partially privatized. OTE as a former monopoly, still has a dominant role in the telecoms area of Greece. It covers the whole country with digital PSTN and ISDN telephone lines and also offers ADSL in all urban areas. OTE is a group of companies owning an ISP (Otenet), a mobile phone combany (Cosmote) and many other companies including OTE International Investements which in its turn owns lots of telcos in Armenia and in the Balkans (Bulgaria, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia etc.). OTE also runs a TETRA network.

OTE and COSMOTE (the mobile phone company of OTE) sponsor of the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

It is also serves telephone books and is divided into nine different areas:

• Athens-Piraeus-Eleusis (three books)
• Achaea, Ilia, Kefallonia and Zante (vol. 8)?, until 2000 excl. Ilia
• Crete
• Epirus
• Mainland Greece (excl. Athens-Piraeus-Eleusis)
• Peloponnese (excl. Achaea and Ilia) (vol. 9), until 1999 or 2000, incl. Ilia
• Thessaly
• Thrace

Area codes can be seen at List of dialing codes in Greece

External links

• OTE Website
• OTE Shop