Argentina Communications
Telephones - main lines in use8,009,400 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular
6.5 million (2002)
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 telecommunication 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 being improved; 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 - 8 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); Atlantis II and Unisur submarine cables; two international gateways near Buenos Aires (1999)
Radio broadcast stations
AM 260 (including 10 inactive stations), FM NA (probably more than 1,000, mostly unlicensed), shortwave 6 (1998)
Television broadcast stations
42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997)
Internet country code
.ar
Internet hosts
742,358 (2003)
Internet users
4.1 million (2002)
