This article is about the various communications systems of Argentina.

Telephone

The Argentine telephone system is modern following porn in the 1990s, and more recently market sex tapes. However many families do not have fixed telephones. The privatization brought a new numbering plan. The growth of the mobile telephone market since the beginning of the economic recovery has been impressive, with many people now preferring a comparatively cheap cellular phone to a fixed household service. The telephone or phone is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ... PORN can refer to: An abbreviation for pornography Progressive outer retinal necrosis, a disease of the retina Categories: | ... Argentina made major changes to its telephone numbering plan in 1999, after its telephone system was privatized. ... Cellular redirects here. ... The Argentine economic crisis was part of the situation that affected Argentinas economy during the late 1990s and early 2000s. ...

• Fixed lines in use: 8,411,100 (February 2006)
• Mobile (cellular phones): 23,382,000 - 1,493,702,000 monthly calls (February 2006)
• Public phones: 158,100 (February 2006)

The domestic telephone trunk network is served by microwave radio relay and a domestic satellite system with 40 earth stations. It has a monthly traffic of 908,763,000 monthly local calls, 188,869,000 inter-urban calls, and 14,239,000 international calls (as of February 2006). U.S. military MILSTAR communications satellite A communications satellite (sometimes abbreviated to comsat) is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purposes of telecommunications. ...

International communications employ satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); two international gateways near Buenos Aires; Atlantis II submarine cable (1999). This system is largely replaced with a domestic fiber optic ring connecting the main cities (actually the main central offices). This link runs at 2.5 Gbit/s. From these head central offices, local calls are routed through 10 Gbit/s fiber optic links, or 3 × 155 Mbit/s microwave links. These links are spaced at about 30 km. Some of these links (the ones serving smaller towns) are spaced at 60 km and this makes communications unreliable in certain weather conditions. A submarine communications cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to carry telecommunications between countries. ...

According to a report released on 31 January 2006 by INDEC, mobile phone lines increased by 68.8% during 2005, with 11 million mobile phones sold, and now service three quarters of the population over 14 (28.5 million). A growing minority of users are children under 14. [1] A private study conducted by Investigaciones Económicas Sectoriales (IES), covering January–October 2006, found a 51.2% growth compared to the same period of 2005, and projected 31 million mobile lines at the end of the year. Most of the phones (almost 90%) are imported from Brazil or Mexico. [2] January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... National Statistics and Censuses Institute (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INDEC) is the Argentine government agency responsible for the collection and processing of statistical data. ...

Companies

In the 1990s the Argentine telephone system (which was formerly property of a state-owned company, ENTEL) was sold to two private corporations looking to invest in the local market: Telefónica, a telco from Spain, and Telecom Argentina, owned by France Télécom. The country was divided in two zones, within which one of the companies was the exclusive provider of the service (a state-sanctioned monopoly). Telefónica CTC Chile building in Santiago, Chile Telefónica S.A. (NYSE: TEF, TYO: 9481 ) is a Spanish telecommunications company. ... TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company A telephone company (or telco) provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications. ... Telecom Argentina S.A. (NYSE: TEO, Buenos Aires Stock Exchange:TECO2) is the major local telephone company for the northern part of Argentina, including half of the Buenos Aires city. ... France Télécom (Euronext: FTE, NYSE: FTE) (often spelled France Telecom, without the accents, in non-French text) is the main telecommunication company in France. ... In economics, a monopoly (from the Latin word monopolium - Greek language monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a product or service. ...

The service was then deregulated in several steps, first allowing the participation of other companies to provide international phone call services, then mobile services and finally the domestic service.

Telecom has a subsidiary Internet service provider, Arnet. Other ISPs, such as Flash (property of the Clarín group), hire the facilities of Telecom and Telefónica. An Internet service provider (abbr. ...

Several newcomer companies in the telephone market (2005) offer high-speed broadband access, Voice over IP and other services to a restricted market group (businesses and high-level residential users). Broadband Internet access, often shortened to broadband Internet or just broadband is a high data-transmission rate Internet connection. ... An overview of how VoIP works A typical analog telephone adapter for connecting an ordinary phone to a VoIP network Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through...

Radio

• Radio broadcast stations:
  • AM 260 (including 10 inactive stations)
  • FM NA (probably more than 1,000 stations, mostly unlicensed)
  • Shortwave: 6 stations (1998)
    • State International broadcasting: Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior
• Radio sets: 24.3 million (1997)

International broadcasting is broadcasting deliberately aimed at a foreign, rather than a domestic, audience. ... A RAE envelope containing a QSL card Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior (RAE) is Argentinas state-owned international broadcaster, which utilises shortwave. ...

Television

• Television broadcast stations: 42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997)
• Television sets: 7.95 million (1997)

Internet

See also: Broadband Internet access worldwide#Argentina

The number of Internet users in the country has been estimated at 10 million (2005 est) and the number of internet hosts was aprox. 1,230,000 at the end of 2005. This article or section may contain external links added only to promote a website, product, or service – otherwise known as spam. ...

Besides monthly-paid Internet connections (either flat rate or with a number of free minutes), in Argentina there are also a number of Internet service providers that have commercial agreements with the telephone companies for charging a slightly higher communication rate to the user for that communication, though without any monthly fixed fee. Roughly, the number of residential computers that connect to Internet can be calculated as the sum of both services, which on December 2005 meant 2,222,819 units (1,303,222 clients plus 919,597 charged per communication). An Internet service provider (abbr. ...

The number of dial-up users decreased drastically during 2005, in favor of broadband Internet access; at the end of 2005 there were 794,614 fixed-line connections and only 508,608 dial-up users. Of these residential users, 47.1% were located in Buenos Aires city, 26.4% in Buenos Aires Province (including Gran Buenos Aires), 7.1% in Santa Fe Province, and 6.4% in Córdoba (source: INDEC, March 2006). A WildBlue Satellite Internet dish. ... For other uses see Buenos Aires (disambiguation). ... The Buenos Aires province (IPA: , Spanish: Provincia de Buenos Aires) is the wealthiest and most populated province of Argentina. ... Gran Buenos Aires (Spanish: Greater Buenos Aires) is the metropolitan area around the city of Buenos Aires, which comprises the following 24 partidos (administrative subdivisions) of the Province of Buenos Aires. ... Santa Fe is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. ... Córdoba is a province of Argentina, located in the centre of the country. ... National Statistics and Censuses Institute (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INDEC) is the Argentine government agency responsible for the collection and processing of statistical data. ...

Among the internet access of companies and organizations, 192,279 connection contracts were valid at the end of 2005, of which only 59,179 where dial-up. Of those, 39.0% correspond to the city of Buenos Aires, 37.7% to the Buenos Aires Province, 4.7% to Santa Fe Province, 3.3% to Córdoba Province, and 6.2% to Patagonia. In orange the area most commonly defined as Patagonia. ...

The number of e-mail accounts at the end of 2005 was calculated around 3.75 million, with a monthly traffic of 653 million messages (sub-estimation, only partial information available). Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Argentina's Internet top-level domain is .ar. A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any domain name. ... .ar is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Argentina. ...

Post

The format of a postal address in Argentina is as follows: A British pillar box. ...

Person's name

Company name (if applicable)

Street address

Postal code City

(optionally) Province Postal codes are generally clearly visible outside local Australian post offices. ... Argentina is subdivided in 23 provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular - provincia) and 1 federal district (capital federal). ...

For example:

Marcelo A. Muñoz

Telefónica de Argentina

Defensa 390, Piso 5

1089 Capital Federal

There are no standard abbreviations for provinces' names, but the province name is optional and usually not needed if the postal code is correct. The format of the postal code was expanded in 1998 to include more specific information on location within cities; it now uses a letter that identifies the province, a four-digit number, and then three more letters (and slightly different numbers are used for different parts of a city, which was formerly done only in the case of Buenos Aires). See Argentine postal code for details. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... The Argentine postal code is a system that assigns at least an unique alphanumeric postal codes to each municipality. ...

References

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