Communications of Costa Rica
Telephones - main lines in use: | 1.351 million (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular: | 1.101 million (2005) |
Telephone system: | general assessment: the parastatal monopoly provides good domestic telephone service in terms of breadth of coverage; restricted cellular telephone service domestic: point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave, fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is available international: country code - 506; connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); 2 submarine cables (2006) |
Radio broadcast stations: | AM 65, FM 51, shortwave 19 (2002) |
Radios: | 980,000 (1997) |
Television broadcast stations: | 20 (plus 43 repeaters) (2002) |
Televisions: | 525,000 (1997) |
Internet country code: | .cr |
Internet hosts: | 12,751 (2006) |
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): | 3 (of which only one is legal) (2000) |
Internet users: | 1 million (2005) |