Guatemala: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 1,718,851 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 12 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 18.121 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 121 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of Guatemala domestic: state-owned telecommunications company privatized in the late 1990s opened the way for competition; fixed-line teledensity roughly 10 per 100 persons; fixed-line investments are being concentrated on improving rural connectivity; mobile-cellular teledensi international: country code - 502; landing point for both the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) and the SAM-1 fiber-optic submarine cable system that, together, provide connectivity to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; connecte (2015) |
| Broadcast media | 4 privately owned national terrestrial TV channels dominate TV broadcasting; multi-channel satellite and cable services are available; 1 government-owned radio station and hundreds of privately owned radio stations (2007) |
| Internet country code | .gt |
| Internet users | total: 4.043 million percent of population: 27.1% (July 2015 est.) |