Telecommunications in Bolivia
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Most telephones are found in La Paz and other communications cities, and the use of mobile telephones is increasing rapidly Telecommunications in Bolivia in the country. Domestic telephones use a primary trunk system, which is undergoing expansion. The telephone country code for Bolivia is 591. In 2006, in Bolivia, there were Nippon Telegraph and Telephone 20,085 internet hosts, and 480,000 users of the internet. There are 171 AM, 73 FM and 77 shortwave radio broadcast stations in Bolivia, serving around Telecommunications in Bolivia 5.25 million radios, in 1997.
In the same year, there were 48 television stations, serving 900,000 televisions. This article was originally adapted from the CIA World Factbook. Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama1 · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago1 · Uruguay · Venezuela Aruba1 / Netherlands Antilles1 (Netherlands) · Falkland Islands / South Georgia Telecommunications in Bolivia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom) 2 · French Guiana (France) . This article concerns communications in Bolivia.
The country code for Bolivia is BO . According to 2005 figures, there are 646,300 main telephone lines in Bolivia and 2.421 million mobile telephones, but new subscribers to the telephone network Telecommunications in Bolivia can encounter bureaucratic difficulties. For international telecommunications, the country has a satellite earth station and uses one Intelsat.
