The first American post office was established in Boston in 1639. Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the telephone in 1876 in Boston. As of 2001, 95.7% of the state's occupied housing units had telephones.
The state had 32 major AM stations and 63 major FM stations in 2003, when 10 major television stations were also in operation. In Boston, WGBH is a major producer of programming for the Public Broadcasting Service. In 2000, the Boston metropolitan area had 2,210,580 television-owning households, 80% of which received cable (the 2nd-highest penetration rate for any city).
In 2000, Massachusetts had 239,358 Internet domain name registrations, ranking 7th amongst all the states.