| Communications | Argentina |
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Telephones - main lines in use:
 | 9.5 million (2007) |
Telephones - main lines in use density:
 | 233 Telephones - main lines in use per 1000 people |
Telephones - mobile cellular:
 | 40.402 million (2007) |
Telephones - mobile cellular - density:
 | 988 mobile cellular telephones in use per 1000 capita |
Telephone system:
 | general assessment: by opening the telecommunications market to competition and foreign investment with the "Telecommunications Liberalization Plan of 1998," Argentina encouraged the growth of modern telecommunications technology; fiber-optic cable trunk lines are being installed between all major cities; major networks are entirely digital and the availability of telephone service is improving; fixed-line telephone density is gradually increasing reaching nearly 25 lines per 100 people in 2007; mobile telephone subscribership has been increasing rapidly and has reached a level of 100 telephones per 100 persons domestic: microwave radio relay, fiber-optic cable, and a domestic satellite system with 40 earth stations serve the trunk network; more than 110,000 pay telephones are installed and mobile telephone use is rapidly expanding; broadband services are gaining ground international: country code - 54; landing point for the Atlantis-2, UNISUR, and South America-1 optical submarine cable systems that provide links to Europe, Africa, South and Central America, and US; satellite earth stations - 112; 2 international gateways near Buenos Aires (2007) |
Radio broadcast stations:
 | AM 260, FM (probably more than 1,000, mostly unlicensed), shortwave 6 (1998) |
Radio broadcast stations AM density:
 | 157,360 people per AM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations FM density:
 | void |
Radio broadcast stations shortwave density:
 | 6,818,931 people per shortwave Radio broadcast station |
Television broadcast stations:
 | 42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997) |
Television broadcast stations density:
 | 974,133 people per Television broadcast station |
Internet country code:
 | .ar |
Internet hosts:
 | 3.813 million (2008) |
Internet users:
 | 9.309 million (2007) |
Internet users - density:
 | 228 internet users per 1000 capita |
Communications - note:
 | void |
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