- Communications -

Telephones - main lines in use:	8,009,400 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	6.5 million (2002)
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 telecommunication technology; fiber-optic cable trunk lines are being installed between all major cities; the major networks are entirely digital and the availability of telephone service is being improved; however, telephone density is presently minimal, and making telephone service universally available will take time 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 international: country code - 54; satellite earth stations - 8 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); Atlantis II and Unisur submarine cables; two international gateways near Buenos Aires (1999)
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 260 (including 10 inactive stations), FM NA (probably more than 1,000, mostly unlicensed), shortwave 6 (1998)
Radios:	24.3 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:	42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:	7.95 million (1997)
Internet country code:	.ar
Internet hosts:	742,358 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	33 (2000)
Internet users:	4.1 million (2002)