Venezuela

Telephones - main lines in use:
5.082 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
23.82 million (2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: 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 interurban fiber-optic network capable of digital multimedia services; fixed-line teledensity 20 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity more than 90 per 100 persons
international: country code - 58; submarine cable systems provide connectivity to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and US; 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 (2007)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 201, FM NA (20 in Caracas), shortwave 11 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:
66 (plus 45 repeaters) (1997)
Internet country code:
.ve
Internet hosts:
145,394 (2008)
Internet users:
5.72 million (2007)