Location: Guatemala
15 30 N, 90 15 W
Central America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Mexico, and bordering the Gulf of Honduras (Caribbean Sea) between Honduras and Belize
Main City Codes:
Antigua 9, Escuintla 9, Guatemala 2, Quezaltenango 9
Mobile Phone Codes:
Guatemala mobile codes 20, 21, 3, 30, 31, 4, 40, 41, 50, 51, 70, 71, 90, 91
Communications: Guatemala
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 1.355 million (2006)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 10.15 million (2007)
- Telephone system:
- general assessment: fairly modern network centered in the city of Guatemala
- domestic: state-owned telecommunications company privatized in the late 1990s opening the way for competition; fixed-line teledensity 11 per 100 persons; fixed-line investments are being concentrated on improving rural connectivity; mobile-cellular teledensity 80 per 100 persons
- international: country code - 502; landing point for both the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) and the SAM-1 fiber optic submarine cable system that together provide connectivity to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean);
- Radio broadcast stations:
- AM 130, FM 487, shortwave 15 (2000)
- Television broadcast stations:
- 26 (plus 27 repeaters) (1997)
- Internet country code:
- .gt
- Internet hosts:
- 124,095 (2008)
- Internet users:
- 1.32 million (2006)
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