Telephones - main lines in use:
1.077 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 77
Telephones - mobile cellular:
6.951 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 72
Telephone system:
general assessment: multiple mobile-cellular service providers are expanding services rapidly and in 2008 mobile-cellular density stood at nearly 100 per 100 persons; growth in fixed-line services has slowed in the face of mobile-cellular competition
domestic: nationwide microwave radio relay system
international: country code - 503; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave System (2008)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 52, FM 144, shortwave 0 (2005)