El Salvador: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 944,266 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 15 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 9.334 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 152 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: multiple mobile-cellular providers are expanding services rapidly; 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 (2015) |
Broadcast media | multiple privately owned national terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by cable TV networks that carry international channels; hundreds of commercial radio broadcast stations and 1 government-owned radio broadcast station (2007) |
Internet country code | .sv |
Internet users | total: 1.653 million percent of population: 26.9% (July 2015 est.) |