Uruguay:
Communications & Transportation


Telephones - main lines in use	987,000 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular	2.333 million (2006)
Telephone system	general assessment: fully digitalized domestic: most modern facilities concentrated in Montevideo; new nationwide microwave radio relay network international: country code - 598; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2002)
Radio broadcast stations	AM 93, FM 191, shortwave 7 (2005)
Television broadcast stations	62 (2005)
Internet country code	.uy
Internet hosts	279,114 (2007)
Internet users	756,000 (2006)

Airports	60 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways	total: 9 over 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 2 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 51 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 19 under 914 m: 29 (2007)
Pipelines	gas 257 km; oil 160 km (2006)
Railways	total: 2,073 km standard gauge: 2,073 km 1.435-m gauge note: 461 km have been taken out of service and 460 km are in partial use (2006)
Roadways	total: 77,732 km paved: 7,743 km unpaved: 69,989 km (2004)
Waterways	1,600 km (2005)
Merchant marine	total: 14 ships (1000 GRT or over) 36,041 GRT/22,274 DWT by type: cargo 2, chemical tanker 2, passenger/cargo 7, petroleum tanker 2, roll on/roll off 1 foreign-owned: 4 (Argentina 3, Greece 1) registered in other countries: 7 (Argentina 1, Bahamas 1, Liberia 3, Spain 2) (2007)
Ports and terminals	Montevideo, Nueva Palmira, Fray Bentos, Colonia, Juan Lacaze