Telephone system: general assessment: generally elementary but being expanded domestic: facilities generally inadequate and unreliable international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 276, FM 499 (plus 315 repeaters), shortwave 26 (2004)
Radios: 5 million (2001)
Television broadcast stations: 318 (including repeaters) (2004)
Televisions: 2.5 million (2001)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 31 (2001)
Internet users: 328,000 (2002)
Internet country code: .ec Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. ...
The most used means of communication throughout the world is the telephone because it is the quickest, most direct and easiest way to communicate.
For calling to Ecuador from outside of the country, you should dial 011 (US and Canada) which is the code for international calls, then dial the country code for Ecuador (593) and finally the code for the province which is two numbers and then the number you are trying to call.
For international calls from Ecuador, you should dial 001, the international code and then the country code, the city code and then finally the number you are going to call.
The Republic of Ecuador is a country in northwestern South America, bounded by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Aerial photograph of Ibarra Ibarra (population of 80,477 in 1990) is a town in northern Ecuador and the capital of the Imbabura province.
Ecuador's mainstream culture is defined by Ecuador's mestizo majority and, like their ancestry, is a mixture of European and Amerindian influences infused with African elements inherited from slave ancestors.