Telecomunications

Guatemala's incumbent telephone company is TELGUA, who won the bidding of the privatization of the government run GUATEL.

Telephone

Telephone

The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...

s - main lines in use:
665,061 (2000)

Approximately 1,384,997 (December 2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
663,296 (2000)

Approximately December 2006: 6,800,000

December 2007 10,151,000 (70% of the population)

Operators:

International Operator	Brand / Users	Technology	Web Site
America Movil América Móvil América Móvil is a Mexican telecommunication company headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico. It is the fourth largest mobile network operator in terms of equity subscribers, one of the largest corporations in Latin America, and the world. America Movil is a Fortune 500 company...	Claro Claro (mobile phone network) Claro is the largest mobile phone network in the Americas. It is part of the Mexican telecom group América Móvil which is one of the four largest mobile phone network operators in the world, with more than 200 million customers... /PCS Digital 3,591,138 (June 2007)	CDMA 1x EVDO Rev 0 1900 mHz, GSM/GPRS/EDGE Edge - Aviation :* Leading edge, a line connecting the forward-most points of a wing's profile* Trailing edge, the rear edge of the wing* Zivko Edge 540, an aerobatic aircraft- Mathematics, science and technology :...  900/1900 mHz, UMTS/HSPA High Speed Packet Access High Speed Packet Access is an amalgamation of two mobile telephony protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access and High Speed Uplink Packet Access , that extends and improves the performance of existing WCDMA protocols...  1900 mHz (1.5 Mbit/s) with video calling and data services available.	Claro Guatemala
Telefónica Telefónica Telefónica, S.A. is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider in Europe and Latin America. Operating globally, it is the third largest provider in the world...	Movistar Movistar Movistar is a major Spanish mobile phone operator owned by Telefónica Móviles. It operates in Spain and in many Latin American countries. It is the largest carrier in Spain with 22 million customers and 41.58% of market share. Its principal competitor in Latin America is America Movil...  2,514,612 (June 2007)	CDMA 1x EVDO Rev A 1900 mHz and GSM/GPRS/EDGE Edge - Aviation :* Leading edge, a line connecting the forward-most points of a wing's profile* Trailing edge, the rear edge of the wing* Zivko Edge 540, an aerobatic aircraft- Mathematics, science and technology :...  1900 mHz, UMTS/HSPA High Speed Packet Access High Speed Packet Access is an amalgamation of two mobile telephony protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access and High Speed Uplink Packet Access , that extends and improves the performance of existing WCDMA protocols...  1900 mHz (7.2 Mbit/s) with data services only available.	MoviStar Guatemala
Millicom Millicom Millicom International Cellular, also known as Tigo, is a mobile phone network provider in America and Africa. Based in Luxembourg, the company provides mobile services in 14 countries. With operations across Central America, South America, South-east Asia, and Africa, using GSM, CDMA and TDMA on...  / Local partners	TIGO/COMCEL 3,116,998 (June 2007)	TDMA Digital AMPS IS-54 and IS-136 are second-generation mobile phone systems, known as Digital AMPS . It was once prevalent throughout the Americas, particularly in the United States and Canada. D-AMPS is considered end-of-life, and existing networks have mostly been replaced by GSM/GPRS or CDMA2000... /N-AMPS (to be shut down) and GSM/GPRS/EDGE Edge - Aviation :* Leading edge, a line connecting the forward-most points of a wing's profile* Trailing edge, the rear edge of the wing* Zivko Edge 540, an aerobatic aircraft- Mathematics, science and technology :...  850 mHz, UMTS/HSDPA 850 mHz (3.6 Mbit/s) with video calling and data services available	TIGO Guatemala
Digicel Group	Digicel Digicel Digicel is a mobile phone network provider covering parts of Oceania, Central America, and the Caribbean regions. The company is owned by Irishman Denis O'Brien, is incorporated in Bermuda, and based in Jamaica. It provides mobile services in 26 countries and territories throughout the Caribbean...  must be launch before June 18, 2008	Planned GSM/GPRS/EDGE Edge - Aviation :* Leading edge, a line connecting the forward-most points of a wing's profile* Trailing edge, the rear edge of the wing* Zivko Edge 540, an aerobatic aircraft- Mathematics, science and technology :...  900 MHz	Digicel Group
Intelfon/RED	Intelfon Launch 2008 (Not Commercial)	Planned iDEN/CDMA 1x EVDO Rev A 800 MHz (Life only for Roaming from Intelfon/RED El Salvador	Intelfon Guatemala

Telephone system:
fairly modern network centered in the city of Guatemala

Guatemala City

Guatemala City , is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala and Central America...

domestic:
NA

international:
connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat

Intelsat

Intelsat, Ltd. is a communications satellite services provider.Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization , it was—from 1964 to 2001—an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast...

 (Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...

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Radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 broadcast

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

 stations:
AM 130, FM

FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...

 487, shortwave

Shortwave

Shortwave radio refers to the upper MF and all of the HF portion of the radio spectrum, between 1,800–30,000 kHz. Shortwave radio received its name because the wavelengths in this band are shorter than 200 m which marked the original upper limit of the medium frequency band first used...

 15 (2000)

Radios:
835,000 (1997)

Television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 broadcast stations:
26 (plus 27 repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:
640,000 (1997)

Internet Service Provider

Internet service provider

An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...

s (ISPs):
27 (2004)

Internet Users:

Year	Users
2002	200,000
2003	600,000
2004	1,000,000
2005	1,700,000
2006	2,400,000
2007	over 3,800,000

Country code

Country code

Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...

(Top-level domain): GT. Guatemala Domains