El Salvador - Communications

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El Salvador is located Central America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and Honduras. The climate is tropical; rainy season (May to October); dry season (November to April); tropical on coast; temperate in uplands. The terrain is mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 1.08 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 6.137 million (2007)

Telephone system

This entry includes a brief general assessment of the system with details on the domestic and international components. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry
Telephone system - general assessment : multiple mobile-cellular service providers are expanding services rapidly and in 2007 mobile-cellular density stood at nearly 90 per 100 persons; growth in fixed-line services has slowed in the face of mobile-cellular competition
Telephone system - domestic : nationwide microwave radio relay system
Telephone system - international : country code - 503; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave System (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 52, FM 144, shortwave 0 (2005)

Radios

Radios : 2.75 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 5 (1997)

Televisions

Televisions : 600,000 (1990)

Internet country code

This entry includes the two-letter codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).
Internet country code : .sv

Internet hosts

This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity.
Internet hosts : 11,434 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 4 (2000)

Internet users

This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months.
Internet users : 700,000 (2006)

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