Argentina
- Communications
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Telephone
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Telephone system:
general assessment: by opening the telecommunications market to competition and foreign investment with the "Telecommunications Liberalization Plan of 1998," Argentina encouraged the growth of modern telecommunications technology; fiber-optic cable trunk lines are being installed between all major cities; the major networks are entirely digital and the availability of telephone service is improving; however, telephone density is presently minimal, and making telephone service universally available will take time
domestic: microwave radio relay, fiber-optic cable, and a domestic satellite system with 40 earth stations serve the trunk network; more than 110,000 pay telephones are installed and mobile telephone use is rapidly expanding
international: country code - 54; satellite earth stations - 112; Atlantis II and Unisur submarine cables; 2 international gateways near Buenos Aires (2005)
Telephones - main lines in use: 9,631,000
(2009)
Rank:
22
Telephones - mobile cellular: 51891000
(2009)
Rank:
22
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Internet
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Internet country code: .ar
Internet hosts: 6025000
(2010)
Rank:
16
Internet users: 13694000
(2009)
Rank: 28
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TV
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Television broadcast stations: 42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997)
Television sets: 7.95 million (1997)
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Radio
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Radio broadcast stations: AM 260 (includes 10 inactive stations), FM (probably more than 1,000, mostly unlicensed), shortwave 6 (1998)
Radio sets: 24.3 million (1997)
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