Telephones - main lines in use:
1.077 million (2008)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
6.951 million (2008)

Telephone system:
general assessment: multiple mobile-cellular service providers are expanding services rapidly and in 2008 mobile-cellular density stood at nearly 100 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 (2008)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 52, FM 144, shortwave 0 (2005)

Television broadcast stations:
5 (1997)

Internet country code:
.sv

Internet hosts:
8,177 (2009)

Internet users:
826,000 (2008)