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Average cost of local call	0.6		[1st of 151]
DVD region	4		[84th of 171]
Fax machines	2.53 per 1,000 people		[49th of 103]
Households with television > %	88.8 %		[59th of 160]
Mobile phone subscribers	6,246,332		[48th of 198]
Newspaper circulation	1,220,000		[19th of 51]
Newspapers	36		[19th of 67]
Newspapers and periodicals > Circulation > Daily	1,220,000		[29th of 90]
Newspapers and periodicals > Number of titles > Daily	36		[31st of 106]
Number of PCs	724		[57th of 169]
Phone subscribers	170.41		[107th of 178]
Radio receivers	4,150,000		[61st of 188]
Radios	5,000,000		[57th of 221]
Telephone system > International country code - 593; landing point for the PAN-AM submarine telecommunications cable that provides links to the west coast of South America, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and extending onward to Aruba and the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Telephone system > Regulation	1995
Telephones > Mobile cellular	10,086,000		[47th of 186]
Television broadcast stations	7		[12th of 89]
Television receivers	1,550,000		[68th of 185]
Televisions	2,500,000		[59th of 215]
Website defacements	12		[64th of 129]

Interesting facts on Ecuadorian Media

• A three-minute local phone call in Ecuador costs 60 U.S. cents, 60 times as much as in Ukraine, Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, or Uzbekistan.

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