Telecommunications in Puerto Rico

Telecommunications in Puerto Rico includes radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.

Broadcasting in Puerto Rico is regulated by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Radio

• Stations: roughly 125 radio stations (2007).

Television

• Stations: more than 30 TV stations operating; three stations of the US Armed Forces Radio and Television Service; cable TV subscription services are available (2007).
• Television sets: 1.0 million sets (1997).

Telephones

• Calling code-area codes: +1-787, +1-939
• International call prefix: 00
• Main lines: 780,200 lines in use, 87th in the world (2012).
• Mobile cellular: 3.1 million lines, 130th in the world (2012).
• System: modern digital system integrated with that of the United States (2011).
• Satellite earth stations: Intelsat with high-speed data capability (2011).
• Communications cables: provide connectivity to the US, Caribbean, Central and South America (2011).

Internet

• Top-level domain: .pr
• Internet users: 1.9 million users, 92nd in the world; 51.4% of the population, 83rd in the world (2012).
• Fixed broadband: available to 65% of Puerto Ricans (2012).
• Wireless broadband: available to 98.7% of Puerto Ricans (2012).
• Available broadband technologies as a percentage of population: 48.2% DSL, 0.1% Fiber, 59.6% cable, 84.7% wireless (2012).
• Internet hosts: 469 hosts, 184th in the world (2012).
• IPv4: 1 million addresses allocated, less than 0.05% of the world total, 250.2 addresses per 1000 people (2012).
• Internet Service Providers: 18 ISPs (1999).

Internet censorship and surveillance

See also

• Economy of Puerto Rico
• Internet Exchange of Puerto Rico, no longer operating as of 2011.
• Media of Puerto Rico

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the CIA World Factbook document "2013 edition".

External links

• About NIC.pr, the registrar for the .pr top-level domain name.
• Internet Society Puerto Rico
• Federal government grants to expand broadband Internet access in Puerto Rico, Broadband USA.
• Puerto Rico summary, National Broadband Map, 31 December 2012.
• Radio Puerto Rico
• El Nuevo Dia
• WIPR-TV 6 & WIPM-TV 3