Costa Rica: Communications

Communications

Costa Rica

Telephones - main lines in use:	1.132 million (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	528,047 (2002)
Telephone system:	general assessment: good domestic telephone service in terms of breadth of coverage; restricted cellular 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: country code - 506; connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); two submarine cables (1999)
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 65, FM 51, shortwave 19 (2002)
Radios:	980,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:	20 (plus 43 repeaters) (2002)
Televisions:	525,000 (1997)
Internet country code:	.cr
Internet hosts:	7,725 (2002)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	3 (of which only one is legal) (2000)
Internet users:	800,000 (2002)