Editing Vatican City (section)

=== Telecommunications and mass media ===
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[[File:Pay phone in the Vatican City.jpg|thumb|A pay phone in the Vatican City]]
The City<!--Referring to Vatican City, not city. Do not decapitalize.--> is served by an independent, modern telephone system named the [[Vatican Telephone Service]].<ref>{{Citation |title=On call 24/7: Vatican phone system directs thousands of call each day |date=24 July 2006 |url=https://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=20631 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219033109/https://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=20631 |archive-date=19 December 2012}}</ref>

The Vatican controls its own Internet [[top-level domain]], which is registered as ([[.va]]). Broadband service is widely provided within Vatican City. Vatican City has a radio [[ITU prefix]], HV, and this is sometimes used by [[amateur radio]] operators.

[[Vatican Radio]], which was organized by [[Guglielmo Marconi]], broadcasts on [[Shortwave|short-wave]], [[Medium wave|medium-wave]] and FM frequencies and on the Internet.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 September 2005 |title=Vatican Radio – Index |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/radio/index.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503202313/http://www.vatican.va/news_services/radio/index.htm |archive-date=3 May 2009 |access-date=6 May 2009 |publisher=Vatican.va}}</ref> Its main transmission antennae are located in Italian territory, and exceed Italian environmental protection levels of emission. For this reason, the Vatican Radio has been [[Vatican Radio lawsuit|sued]]. Television services are provided through another entity, the [[Vatican Television Center]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vatican Television Center – Index |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/television/index.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503202319/http://www.vatican.va/news_services/television/index.htm |archive-date=3 May 2009 |access-date=6 May 2009 |publisher=Vatican.va}}</ref>

''[[L'Osservatore Romano]]'' is the multilingual semi-official newspaper of the Holy See. It is published by a private corporation under the direction of Catholic laymen, but reports on official information. The official texts of documents are in the ''[[Acta Apostolicae Sedis]]'', the [[Gazette|official gazette]] of the Holy See, which has an appendix for documents of the Vatican City State.

Vatican Radio, the Vatican Television Center, and L'Osservatore Romano are organs of the Holy See. They are listed in the ''[[Annuario Pontificio]]'', which places them in the section "Institutions linked with the Holy See", ahead of the sections on the Holy See's diplomatic service abroad and the [[diplomatic corps]] accredited to the Holy See, after which is placed the section on the State of Vatican City. In 2015, these organisations were brought together under the [[Dicastery for Communication]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Motu Proprio |url=https://www.comunicazione.va/en/chi-siamo/motu-proprio.html |website=www.comunicazione.va}}</ref>