Mexico: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 19,886,949 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 16 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 106.831 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 88 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: adequate telephone service for business and government; improving quality and increasing mobile cellular availability, with mobile subscribers far outnumbering fixed-line subscribers; domestic satellite system with 120 earth stations; extensive microwave domestic: competition has spurred the mobile-cellular market; fixed-line teledensity is less than 20 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is about 90 per 100 persons international: country code - 52; Columbus-2 fiber-optic submarine cable with access to the US, Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Spain, and Italy; the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) and the MAYA-1 submarine cable system together provide access to Central (2015) |
Broadcast media | many TV stations and more than 1,400 radio stations with most privately owned; the Televisa group once had a virtual monopoly in TV broadcasting, but new broadcasting groups and foreign satellite and cable operators are now available (2012) |
Internet country code | .mx |
Internet users | total: 69.915 million percent of population: 57.4% (July 2015 est.) |