Short facts about communications in Costa Rica

Telephones - main lines in use:

450,000 (1998) note:  584,000 installed in 1997, but only about 450,000 were in use 1998

Telephones - mobile cellular:

143,000 (2000)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  very good domestic telephone service domestic:  point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave, fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is available international:  connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); two submarine cables (1999)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 50, FM 43, shortwave 19 (1998)

Radios:

980,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

6 (plus 11 repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:

525,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.cr

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

3 (of which only one is legal) (2000)

Internet users:

150,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook