Ecuador: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 2,512,657 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 16 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 12.888 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 81 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: elementary fixed-line service but increasingly sophisticated mobile-cellular network domestic: fixed-line services provided by multiple telecommunications operators; fixed-line teledensity stands at about 15 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular use has surged and subscribership has reached 80 per 100 persons international: country code - 593; landing points for the PAN-AM and South America-1 submarine cables that provide links to the west coast of South America, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and extending onward to Aruba and the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean; satellite (2015) |
| Broadcast media | multiple TV networks and many local channels, as well as more than 300 radio stations; many TV and radio stations are privately owned; the government owns or controls 5 national TV stations and multiple radio stations; broadcast media required by law to g (2007) |
| Internet country code | .ec |
| Internet users | total: 7.766 million percent of population: 48.9% (July 2015 est.) |