Cuba Communications
Telephones - main lines in use574,400 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular
17,900 (2002)
Telephone system
general assessment: greater investment beginning in 1994 and the establishment of a new Ministry of Information Technology and Communications in 2000 has resulted in improvements in the system; cellular service, initially restricted, was opened to public access in 2003
domestic: national fiber-optic system scheduled to be completed by end of 2003; 85% of switches digitized by end of 2002 with entire system by end 2003; telephone line density remains low; cellular service expanding
international: country code - 53; fiber-optic cable laid to but not linked to US network; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region)
Radio broadcast stations
AM 169, FM 55, shortwave 1 (1998)
Television broadcast stations
58 (1997)
Internet country code
.cu
Internet hosts
1,529 (2003)
Internet users
120,000 (2001)
