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Communications in El Salvador

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Telephones - main lines in use: 1.08 million (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 6.137 million (2007)

Telephone system: general assessment: multiple mobile-cellular service providers are expanding services rapidly and in 2007 mobile-cellular density stood at nearly 90 per 100 persons; growth in fixed-line services has slowed in the face of mobile-cellular competition domestic: nationwide microwave radio relay system international: country code - 503; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave System (2007)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 52, FM 144, shortwave 0 (2005)

Television broadcast stations: 5 (1997)

Internet country code: .sv

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 700,000 (2006)