General

The government owns, operates, or supervises all internal telephone, telegraph, radio and television service. Postal and telegraph facilities are provided by the Mail and Telecommunications Service. The National Telephone Company, an autonomous enterprise, operated more than 18 million main line telephones in 2006. In that same year, there were almost 46.2 million mobile cellular phones in use.

As of 1998, radio transmissions were broadcast over 208 AM and 715 FM stations by four government and six private networks, and four state-owned television networks. In 1995, there were 224 television stations. In 2000, there were about 333 radios and 591 television sets for every 1,000 people.

In 2006, there were 56 internet service providers serving 18.58 million people.

Overview

Telephones - main lines in use:
18.385 million (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
46.152 million (2006)

Telephone system:
general assessment: well developed, modern facilities; fixed-line teledensity is 45 connections for each 100 persons
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity is 160 telephones per 100 persons
international: country code - 34; submarine cables provide connectivity to Europe, Middle East, Asia, and US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 208, FM 715, shortwave 1 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
224 (plus 2,105 repeaters; includes 11 television broadcast stations and 88 repeaters in the Canary Islands) (1995)

Internet country code:
.es

Internet hosts:
2.552 million (2007)

Internet users:
18.578 million (2006)