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Tabular Data - Communications in Argentina
| Telephones - Main Lines In Use : |
8,009,400 (2002) |
| Telephones - Cellular : |
6.5 million (2002) |
| Telephone System : |
general assessment: by opening the telecommunications market to competition and foreign investment with the "Telecommunications Liberalization Plan of 1998," Argentina encouraged the growth of modern telecommunication technology; fiber-optic cable trunk lines are being installed between all major cities; the major networks are entirely digital and the availability of telephone service is being improved; however, telephone density is presently minimal, and making telephone service universally available will take time
domestic: microwave radio relay, fiber-optic cable, and a domestic satellite system with 40 earth stations serve the trunk network; more than 110,000 pay telephones are installed and mobile telephone use is rapidly expanding
international: country code - 54; satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); Atlantis II and Unisur submarine cables; two international gateways near Buenos Aires (1999) |
| Radio Stations : |
AM 260 (including 10 inactive stations), FM NA (probably more than 1,000, mostly unlicensed), shortwave 6 (1998) |
| Radios : |
24,300,000 (1997) |
| Television Stations : |
42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997) |
| Televisions : |
7.95 million (1997) |
| Internet Country Code : |
.ar |
| Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : |
33 (2000) |
| Internet Users : |
4.1 million (2002) |
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