Italian Communications Italy's communications are not as modern as other countries that are close to the size of Italy. Italians communicate by cell phone & by phone boxes on the streets. Infrastructure in Italy is not as modern but still has a lot of users. As of 2012 there were 25.662 million internet hosts in Italy. & as of 2009 there was about 29.235 million internet users in Italy. There was about 21.656 million main telephone lines in Italy. Lastly there was 97.225 million mobile telephones in use as of 2012 in Italy.