| Communications | Mexico |
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Telephones - main lines in use:
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19.892 million (2010) |
Telephones - main lines in use density:
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175 Telephones - main lines in use per 1000 people |
Telephones - mobile cellular:
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91.363 million (2010) |
Telephones - mobile cellular - density:
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804 mobile cellular telephones in use per 1000 capita |
Telephone system:
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general assessment: adequate telephone service for business and government; improving quality and increasing mobile cellular availability, with mobile subscribers far outnumbering fixed-line subscribers; domestic satellite system with 120 earth stations; extensive microwave radio relay network; considerable use of fiber-optic cable and coaxial cable
domestic: despite the opening to competition in January 1997, Telmex remains dominant; Fixed-line teledensity is less than 20 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity reached 75 per 100 persons in 2009
international: country code - 52; Columbus-2 fiber-optic submarine cable with access to the US, Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Spain, and Italy; the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) and the MAYA-1 submarine cable system together provide access to Central America, parts of South America and the Caribbean, and the US; satellite earth stations - 120 (32 Intelsat, 2 Solidaridad (giving Mexico improved access to South America, Central America, and much of the US as well as enhancing domestic communications), 1 Panamsat, numerous Inmarsat mobile earth stations); linked to Central American Microwave System of trunk connections (2009) |
Broadcast media:
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large number of television stations and more than 1,400 radio stations, most are privately owned; the Televisa group once had a virtual monopoly in TV broadcasting, but new broadcasting groups and foreign satellite and cable operators are now available (2007) |
Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 851, FM 726, shortwave 15 (2009) |
Radio broadcast stations AM density:
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133,636 people per AM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations FM density:
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156,645 people per FM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations shortwave density:
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7,581,616 people per shortwave Radio broadcast station |
Television broadcast stations:
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729 (2009) |
Television broadcast stations density:
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156,001 people per Television broadcast station |
Internet country code:
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.mx |
Internet hosts:
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12.854 million (2010) |
Internet users:
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31.02 million (2009) |
Internet users - density:
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273 internet users per 1000 capita |
Communications - note:
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void |
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