Honduras: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 497,072 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 6 (July 2015 est.) |
---|---|
Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 8.048 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 92 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: fixed-line connections are increasing but still limited; competition among multiple providers of mobile-cellular services is contributing to a sharp increase in subscribership domestic: beginning in 2003, private sub-operators allowed to provide fixed lines in order to expand telephone coverage contributing to a small increase in fixed-line teledensity; mobile-cellular subscribership is roughly 90 per 100 persons international: country code - 504; landing point for both the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) and the MAYA-1 fiber-optic submarine cable system that together provide connectivity to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; satellite (2015) |
Broadcast media | multiple privately owned terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by multiple cable TV networks; Radio Honduras is the lone government-owned radio network; roughly 300 privately owned radio stations (2007) |
Internet country code | .hn |
Internet users | total: 1.781 million percent of population: 20.4% (July 2015 est.) |