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Introduction - Argentina: | Location - Argentina: | People - Argentina: | Government - Argentina: | Economy - Argentina: | Communications - Argentina: | Fiscal year | calendar year | | 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) | |
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This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |