Communications In Cuba

Telephones - mobile cellular:
97,100 (June 2005) (ref: Informa Telecoms & Media)

Telephone system:

''domestic:''
85,3% of lines are digital connected.
Principal trunk system, end to end of country, is coaxial cable; fiber-optic distribution in Havana and on Isla de la Juventud; 2 microwave radio relay installations (one is old, US-built; the other newer, Soviet-built); both analog and digital mobile cellular service established

''international:''
satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 169, FM 55, shortwave 1 (1998)
All of them are owned by the state-owned Cuban Radio and Television Corporation (ICRT), which manages Radio Rebelde, the largest AM network, and the SW service Radio Habana Cuba. (Source: WRTH 2005)

Radios:
3.9 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
58 (1997)
Virtually all of them are owned by the state-owned Cuban Radio and Television Corporation (ICRT). The only domestic TV network is Tele Rebelde, which is the TV counterpart to Radio Rebelde. Another network, which might also use a satellite TV grid, is Cubavisión. )

Televisions:
2.64 million (1997)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2

• Empresa Telefonica de Cuba, S.A ( ETECSA ), Colombus (2003)

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SEE ALSO

• Cuba