Short facts about communications in Venezuela

Telephones - main lines in use:

2,600,000.00; however, 3,500,000 were installed (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

2 million (1998)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  modern and expanding domestic:  domestic satellite system 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 of digital multimedia services international:  3 submarine coaxial cables; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 PanAmSat; participating with Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in the construction of an international fiber-optic network

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 201, FM NA (20 in Caracas), shortwave 11 (1998)

Radios:

10.75 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

66 (plus 45 repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:

4.1 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.ve

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

16 (2000)

Internet users:

400,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook