Communications of Venezuela
Telephones - main lines in use: | 4.216 million (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular: | 12.496 million (2005) |
Telephone system: | general assessment: modern and expanding domestic: domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations; recent substantial improvement in telephone service in rural areas; substantial increase in digitalization of exchanges and trunk lines; installation of a national interurban fiber-optic network capable of digital multimedia services international: country code - 58; 3 submarine coaxial cables; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 PanAmSat; participating with Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in the construction of an international fiber-optic network |
Radio broadcast stations: | AM 201, FM NA (20 in Caracas), shortwave 11 (1998) |
Radios: | 10.75 million (1997) |
Television broadcast stations: | 66 (plus 45 repeaters) (1997) |
Televisions: | 4.1 million (1997) |
Internet country code: | .ve |
Internet hosts: | 51,968 (2006) |
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): | 16 (2000) |
Internet users: | 3.04 million (2005) |