Telecommunications and Broadcast Networks
Telephones - main lines not u noc in use: 965,200 (2007)
Telephones - mobilcellular: 3,004,323 (2007)
Telephone system: some modern facilities
domestic: most modern facilities concentrated in Montevideo; new nationwide microwave radio relay network
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 94, FM 115, shortwave 14 (seven are inactive) (1998)
Radios: 1.97 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 62 (plus ten low-power repeaters for the Montevideo station) (2005)
Televisions: 782,000 (1997)
International call sign prefixes for radio and television stations: CV and CX
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