Telecommunications in Venezuela

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In Venezuela the first law on telecommunications was approved in 1940. It identified the responsibility of the state in regard to telephone and other telecommunication systems, including radio and television services.{{cite book |editor1=Bjorn Wellenius|editor2=Peter A. Stern| title=Implementing Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector: Lessons from Experience|publisher=World Bank|author=Aileen A. Pisciotta|year=1994

|isbn=978-0-8213-2606-0|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rNXvYbC_JNMC&pg=PA185|chapter=Privatization of Telecommunications: The Case of Venezuela|page=185|location=Washington, D.C.}}

Telephones {{En dash}} main lines in use:

7.332 million (2011)

Telephones {{En dash}} mobile cellular:

28,782,000 (2011)

Telephone system:

modern and expanding

domestic: domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations; recent substantial improvement in telephone service in rural areas; substantial increase in digitalization of exchanges and trunk lines; installation of a national interurban fibre-optic network capable of digital multimedia services; combined fixed and mobile-cellular telephone subscribership 130 per 100 persons.

international:

country code {{En dash}} 58; submarine cable systems provide connectivity to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and US; satellite earth stations {{En dash}} 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 PanAmSat; participating with Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in the construction of an international fiber-optic network; constructing submarine cable to provide connectivity to Cuba