Uruguay: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 1,106,431 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 33 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 5.495 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 164 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: fully digitalized domestic: most modern facilities concentrated in Montevideo; nationwide microwave radio relay network; overall fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity over 195 telephones per 100 persons international: country code - 598; the UNISOR submarine cable system provides direct connectivity to Brazil and Argentina; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015) |
Broadcast media | mixture of privately owned and state-run broadcast media; more than 100 commercial radio stations and about 20 TV channels; cable TV is available; many community radio and TV stations; adopted the hybrid Japanese/Brazilian HDTV standard (ISDB-T) in Decemb (2010) |
Internet country code | .uy |
Internet users | total: 2.159 million percent of population: 64.6% (July 2015 est.) |