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Average cost of local call	0.03		[119th of 151]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Applied sciences	253		[33rd of 77]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Literature	221		[39th of 77]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Religion, theology	49		[37th of 73]
Cinema attendance	1,700,000		[56th of 78]
Households with television > %	92.8 %		[12th of 160]
Mobile phone subscribers	1,101,035		[96th of 198]
Newspapers	8		[41st of 67]
Newspapers and periodicals > Circulation > Daily	275,000		[42nd of 90]
Newspapers and periodicals > Number of titles > Daily	6		[56th of 106]
Number of PCs	930		[54th of 169]
Phone subscribers	305.44		[81st of 178]
Radio receivers	980,000		[109th of 188]
Radios	980,000		[111st of 221]
Telephone system > International country code - 506; landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) fiber-optic telecommunications submarine cable and the MAYA-1 submarine cable that provide links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Telephones > Mobile cellular	1,503,000		[105th of 186]
Television broadcast stations	20		[2nd of 89]
Television receivers	525,000		[94th of 185]
Televisions	525,000		[99th of 215]
Website defacements	18		[54th of 129]

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