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Hyderabad, India has a well-developed communication and media infrastructure, and the city is covered by a large network of optical fiber cables. The city's telephone system is serviced by four landline companies: BSNL, Tata Indicom, Reliance and Airtel. There are a number of mobile-phone companies: Aircel, BSNL, Airtel, Hutch, Idea Cellular, Uninor, MTS, Virgin Mobile, Tata Indicom, Tata DoCoMo and Reliance. Several companies offer broadband internet access.

Broadcast radio

The city has a variety of AM and FM radio stations. Two AM and two FM stations in Hyderabad are op The city has a variety of AM and FM radio stations. Two AM and two FM stations in Hyderabad are operated by All India Radio (AIR), officially known as Akashvani. The first FM radio station to broadcast in the city was AIR's Vividh Bharati in the early 1990s. In 2006, commercial FM radio stations were launched in Hyderabad. These stations are broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week with programming in Telugu and Hindi. The FM radio stations in the city are:

• AIR Vividh Bharati 102.8 MHz
• AIR Rainbow 101.9 MHz
• Radio Mirchi 98.3 MHz
• Radio City 91.1 MHz
• BIG FM 92.7 92.7 MHz
• RED FM 93.5 MHz
• IGNOU Gyan Vani 105.6 MHz (educational station, on air from 18.00 to 22.00 hours)

AM radio stations in the city are:

• Hyderabad-A 737 kHz
• Hyderabad-B 1377 kHz

Internet radio

• TELANGANA RADIO 24/7 Telugu Live Radio^[1]
• RadioKhushi.com 24/7 Telugu online radio^[2]
• Deccan Radio 24/7 South Indian internet radio^[3]
• TeluguOne Radio 24/7 Telugu Live Radio^[4]

• Tharangamedia

Tollywood Cinema

Hyderabad is the homeland of Tollywood, the Telugu movie industry. Apart from being a popular entertainment source and India's largest film producer as measured by the number of films made every year (followed by Bollywood), Tollywood also provides livelihood to thousands of its citizens and contributes a large amount of revenue to the local government. Previously, many Telugu films were produced in Madras. However, improvements in Hyderabad's infrastructure and initiatives such as establishing studios like Ramoji Film City (cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest film studio), Saradhi Studios, Annapurna Studios, Ramanaidu Studios, Ramakrishna Studios and Padmalaya Studioshave changed the situation. Not only Telugu films, but films from Bollywood are made in Hyderabad.