Communications in Venezuela
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Telephones - main lines in use: 2.6 million (1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 21,700,000 (2007)
Telephone system: modern and expanding
domestic: domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations; recent substantial improvement in telephone service in rural areas; substantial increase in digitalization of exchanges and trunk lines; installation of a national inter-urban fiber-optic network capable of digital multimedia services
international: 3 submarine coaxial cables; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 PanAmSat; participating with Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in the construction of an international fiber-optic network
Radio broadcast stations: AM 201, FM NA (20 in Caracas), shortwave 11 (1998)
Radios: 10.75 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 66 (plus 45 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions: 4.1 million (1997)
[edit] Internet
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 11 (1999)
Country code (Top level domain): VE
Venezuela has many Internet service providers, although it's mostly monopolized by the now state-owned CANTV.net which offers ADSL and Dialup services. Broadband access Venezuela is provided through ADSL, Cable, Satellite, EDGE, EV-DO, WiFi Hotspots and more recently WiMax. Prices fluctuate between $45 and $60 USD monthly for basic broadband plans. Some of the most important providers are:
- CANTV.net - ADSL/WiFi Hotspots and also EV-DO through the Movilnet brand.
- Intercable - Cable/WiFi Hotspots
- Movistar - Cable/WLL/EV-DO
- Movilmax - WiMax (Only available in Caracas)
- See also : Venezuela
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| Sovereign states | Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama* · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago* · Uruguay · Venezuela |  |
| Dependencies | Aruba* (Netherlands) · Falkland Islands (UK) · French Guiana (France) · Netherlands Antilles* (Netherlands) · South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) | |
| * Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (North America). | ||
