Telephones - main lines in use 450,000 (1998)
note: 584,000 installed in 1997, but only about 450,000 were in use in 1998

Telephones - mobile cellular 143,000 (2000)

Telephone system
general assessment: very good domestic telephone service
domestic: point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave, fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is available
international: connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); two submarine cables (1999)

Radio broadcast stations AM 50, FM 43, shortwave 19 (1998)

Radios 980,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations 6 (plus 11 repeaters) (1997)

Televisions 525,000 (1997)

Internet country code .cr

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 3 (of which only one is legal) (2000)

Internet users 250,000 (2001)

NOTE: The information regarding Costa Rica on this page is re-published from the 2002 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Costa Rica Communications 2002 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Costa Rica Communications 2002 should be addressed to the CIA.