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Mexico:
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Other pages in this profile of Mexico:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
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Telephones - main lines in use |
Definition - World rank and map 19.861 million (2006) |
Telephones - main lines in use per 1,000 people |
Definition - World rank and map 180.6 (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular |
Definition - World rank and map 68.254 million (2007) |
Telephones - mobile cellular subscribers per 1,000 people |
Definition - World rank and map 620.7 (2007) |
Telephone system |
Definition general assessment: adequate telephone service for business and government, but the population is poorly served; mobile subscribers far outnumber fixed-line subscribers; domestic satellite system with 120 earth stations; extensive microwave radio relay network; considerable use of fiber-optic cable and coaxial cable domestic: low telephone density with about 18 fixed lines per 100 persons; privatized in December 1990; despite the opening to competition in January 1997, Telmex remains dominant; legal challenges to Telmex's alleged anti-competitive behavior in the mobile and fixed-line markets culminated in a World Trade Organization ruling in 2004 against Mexico prompting some strengthening of the powers granted Mexico's telecom regulator international: country code - 52; Columbus-2 fiber-optic submarine cable with access to the US, Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Spain, and Italy; the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) and the MAYA-1 submarine cable system together provide access to Central America, parts of South America and the Caribbean, and the US; satellite earth stations - 120 (32 Intelsat, 2 Solidaridad (giving Mexico improved access to South America, Central America, and much of the US as well as enhancing domestic communications), 1 Panamsat, numerous Inmarsat mobile earth stations); linked to Central American Microwave System of trunk connections (2005) |
Radio broadcast stations |
Definition AM 850, FM 545, shortwave 15 (2003) |
Television broadcast stations |
Definition 236 (plus repeaters) (1997) |
Internet country code |
Definition .mx |
Internet hosts |
Definition - World rank and map 7.629 million (2007) |
Internet hosts per 1,000 people |
Definition - World rank and map 69.4 (2007) |
Internet users |
Definition - World rank and map 22 million (2006) |
Internet users per 1,000 people |
Definition - World rank and map 200.1 (2006) |
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Airports |
Definition - World rank and map 1,834 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
Definition total: 231 over 3,047 m: 12 2,438 to 3,047 m: 29 1,524 to 2,437 m: 84 914 to 1,523 m: 77 under 914 m: 29 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways |
Definition total: 1,603 over 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 63 914 to 1,523 m: 408 under 914 m: 1,131 (2007) |
Heliports |
Definition 1 (2007) |
Pipelines |
Definition gas 22,705 km; liquid petroleum gas 1,875 km; oil 8,688 km; oil/gas/water 228 km; refined products 6,520 km (2006) |
Railways |
Definition - World rank and map total: 17,665 km standard gauge: 17,665 km 1.435-m gauge (2006) |
Roadways |
Definition - World rank and map total: 356,945 km paved: 123,503 km (includes 6,144 km of expressways) unpaved: 233,442 km (2005) |
Waterways |
Definition 2,900 km (navigable rivers and coastal canals) (2007) |
Merchant marine |
Definition - World rank and map total: 58 ships (1000 GRT or over) 798,024 GRT/1,134,064 DWT by type: bulk carrier 2, cargo 7, chemical tanker 6, liquefied gas 4, passenger/cargo 12, petroleum tanker 24, roll on/roll off 3 foreign-owned: 4 (Denmark 2, Norway 1, UAE 1) registered in other countries: 17 (Brazil 1, Honduras 1, Liberia 1, Marshall Islands 2, Panama 3, Portugal 1, Spain 3, Venezuela 4, unknown 1) (2008) |
Ports and terminals |
Definition Altamira, Coatzacoalcos, Manzanillo, Morro Redondo, Salina Cruz, Tampico, Veracruz |
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