El Salvador:
Communications & Transportation


Telephones - main lines in use	1.037 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular	3.852 million (2006)
Telephone system	general assessment: the four mobile-cellular service providers are expanding services rapidly and in 2006 mobile-cellular density stood at roughly 55 per 100 persons; growth in fixed-line services has slowed in the face of mobile-cellular competition domestic: nationwide microwave radio relay system international: country code - 503; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave System
Radio broadcast stations	AM 52, FM 144, shortwave 0 (2005)
Television broadcast stations	5 (1997)
Internet country code	.sv
Internet hosts	12,519 (2007)
Internet users	637,000 (2005)

Airports	65 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways	total: 4 over 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 61 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 12 under 914 m: 48 (2007)
Heliports	1 (2007)
Railways	total: 562 km narrow gauge: 562 km 0.914-m gauge note: railways not in operation since 2005 because of disuse and lack of maintenance due to high costs (2007)
Roadways	total: 10,886 km paved: 2,827 km unpaved: 8,059 km (2000)
Waterways	Rio Lempa partially navigable for small craft (2007)
Ports and terminals	Acajutla, Puerto Cutuco