451,000 (525,700 main lines installed)
(yearend 1996)

46,500 (December 1996)

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)

AM 50, FM 43, shortwave 19 (1998)

980,000 (1997)

6 (plus 11 repeaters) (1997)

525,000 (1997)

2 (1999)