Introduction
How is the communication system in Aruba? Here, Broadcast media include 2 commercial TV stations; cable TV subscription service provides access to foreign channels; about 19 commercial radio stations broadcast (2017). What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in Aruba
| Internet country code | .aw |
|---|---|
| Broadband - fixed subscriptions | |
| Total | 19,000 (2020 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 18 (2020 est.) |
| Internet users | |
| Total | 106,800 (2021 est.) |
| Percent of population | 97% (2021 est.) |
| Telecommunication systems | |
| General assessment | The telecom sector has seen a decline in subscriber numbers (particularly for prepaid mobile services the mainstay of short term visitors) and revenue; fixed and mobile broadband services are two areas that have benefited from the crisis as employees and students have resorted to working from home; one area of the telecom market that is not prepared for growth is 5G mobile; governments, regulators, and even the mobile network operators have shown that they have not been investing in 5G opportunities at the present time; network expansion and enhancements remain concentrated around improving LTE coverage (2021) |
| Domestic | 33 per 100 fixed-line telephone subscriptions and 130 per 100 mobile-cellular (2021) |
| International | Country code - 297; landing points for the PAN-AM, PCCS, Deep Blue Cable, and Alonso de Ojeda submarine telecommunications cable system that extends from Trinidad and Tobago, Florida, Puerto Ricco, Jamaica, Guyana, Sint Eustatius & Saba, Suriname, Dominican Republic, BVI, USVI, Haiti, Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, through Aruba to Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile; extensive interisland microwave radio relay links (2019) |
| Telephones - fixed lines | |
| Total subscriptions | 35,000 (2021 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 33 (2021 est.) |
| Telephones - mobile cellular | |
| Total subscriptions | 141,000 (2021 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 132 (2021 est.) |
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