Telephones - main lines in use: Telephones - mobile cellular: Telephone system:
Broadcast media: Internet hosts: Internet users:
1.06 million (2012)
country comparison to the world: 74
[see also: Telephones - main lines in use country ranks ]
8.65 million (2012)
country comparison to the world: 88
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks ]
general assessment:
multiple mobile-cellular providers are expanding services rapidly and in 2011 teledensity exceeded 135 per 100 persons; growth in fixed-line services has slowed in the face of mobile-cellular competition
domestic:
nationwide microwave radio relay system
international:
country code - 503; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave System (2011)
multiple privately owned national terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by cable TV networks that carry international channels; hundreds of commercial radio broadcast stations and 1 government-owned radio broadcast station (2007)
24,070 (2012)
country comparison to the world: 113
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]
746,000 (2009)
country comparison to the world: 107
[see also: Internet users country ranks ]