Venezuela: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 7,780,096 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 27 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 29.094 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 99 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: modern and expanding domestic: 2 domestic satellite systems with 3 earth stations; recent substantial improvement in telephone service in rural areas; substantial increase in digitalization of exchanges and trunk lines; installation of a national interurban fiber-optic network capable international: country code - 58; submarine cable systems provide connectivity to Cuba and the Caribbean, Central and South America, and US; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 PanAmSat; participating with Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in (2013) |
Broadcast media | government supervises a mixture of state-run and private broadcast media; 13 public service networks, 61 privately owned TV networks, a privately owned news channel with limited national coverage, and a government-backed Pan-American channel; state-run ra (2014) |
Internet country code | .ve |
Internet users | total: 18.113 million percent of population: 61.9% (July 2015 est.) |