Communications in Costa Rica
Telephones - main lines in use:
451,000 (525,700 main lines installed) (yearend 1996)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
46,500 (December 1996)
Telephone system:
very good domestic telephone service
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 50, FM 43, shortwave 19 (1998)
Radios:
980,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
6 (plus 11 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
525,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (1999)
Country codes: CR
domestic:
point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave, fiber-optic and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is available
international:
connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); two submarine cables (1999)