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Argentina - Communications (Facts)

Telephones - main lines in use: 9.46 million (2006) Telephones - mobile cellular: 31.51 million (2006) 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 telecommunications 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 improving; 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 - 112; Atlantis II and Unisur submarine cables; 2 international gateways near Buenos Aires (2005) Radio broadcast stations: AM 260 (includes 10 inactive stations), FM (probably more than 1,000, mostly unlicensed), shortwave 6 (1998) Television broadcast stations: 42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997) Internet country code: .ar Internet hosts: 1.612 million (2006) Internet users: 8.184 million (2006)