Telephones - mobile cellular: 2 million (1998)
Telephone system: 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 inter-urban fiber-optic network capable of digital multimedia services international: 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 Service Providers (ISPs): 11 (1999)
@Venezuela:Transportation
Railways: total: 584 km (248 km privately owned) standard gauge: 584 km 1.435-m gauge
Highways: total: 96,155 km paved: 32,308 km unpaved: 63,847 km (1997 est.)