| Telephones - main lines in use | total subscriptions: 882,498 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 13.73 (2019 est.) |
| Telephones - mobile cellular | total subscriptions: 9,442,667 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 146.91 (2019 est.) |
| Telecommunication systems | general assessment: El Salvador’s telecom sector is challenged by low population, poor infrastructure, and unequal income distribution compounded by corruption and criminal influence; liberal regulation promotes mobile penetration in replacement of fixed-line density; operators testing 5G in 2020 (2020) (2020)domestic: growth in fixed-line services 14 per 100, has slowed in the face of mobile-cellular competition at 147 per 100 (2019) international: country code - 503; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave System (2019) note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced downturn, particularly in mobile device production; many network operators delayed upgrades to infrastructure; progress towards 5G implementation was postponed or slowed in some countries; consumer spending on telecom services and devices was affected by large-scale job losses and the consequent restriction on disposable incomes; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home became evident, and received some support from governments |
| Broadcast media | multiple privately owned national terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by cable TV networks that carry international channels; hundreds of commercial radio broadcast stations and 1 government-owned radio broadcast station; transition to digital transmission to begin in 2018 along with adaptation of the Japanese-Brazilian Digital Standard (ISDB-T) |
| Internet country code | .sv |
| Internet users | total: 2,153,776 percent of population: 33.82% (July 2018 est.) |
| Broadband - fixed subscriptions | total: 492,265 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 8 (2018 est.) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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