Telecommunications in Ecuador

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Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use: 2.004 million (2009).

Telephones - mobile cellular:13.635 million (2009).

Telephone system:
general assessment: generally elementary but being expanded
domestic: facilities generally inadequate and unreliable
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

There are 3 cell phone providers in Ecuador: Porta (Android), keyboard and Alegro.
Mobile networks are diverse and include GSM 850 MHz (largest) as well as CDMA (Bell South's old network before being acquired by Telefonica Spain which rebranded Movistar), TDMA63. Alegro is the state owned firm and uses CDMA.

Radio

Radio broadcast stations: AM 279, FM 530 (plus 349 repeaters), shortwave 25 (Mar. 2006)

Radios: 5 million (2001)

Television

Television broadcast stations: 323 (including repeaters) (2005)

Televisions: 2.5 million (2001)

Internet

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet hosts: 67,975 (2010)

Internet users: 3.352 million (2009)

Internet country code: .ec

References

• Source: Superintendence of Telecommunications, Control telecommunications services
•  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the website parsing.

See also

• Ecuador