Introduction
How is the communication system in Peru? Here, Broadcast media include 10 major TV networks of which only one, Television Nacional de Peru, is state owned; multi-channel cable TV services are available; in excess of 5,000 radio stations including a substantial number of indigenous language stations (2021). What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in Peru
| Internet country code | .pe |
|---|---|
| Broadband - fixed subscriptions | |
| Total | 3.044 million (2020 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 9 (2020 est.) |
| Internet users | |
| Total | 24.14 million (2021 est.) |
| Percent of population | 71% (2021 est.) |
| Telecommunication systems | |
| General assessment | After suffering a sharp retraction in the number of subscriptions and revenue during 2020 due to the pandemic, Peru’s telecom sector managed to stage a small recovery in the first half of 2021; it will likely be two to three years before penetration rates return to the peak levels last seen in 2018; this is especially true given the overwhelming influence of mobile on Peru’s telecommunications market, which now commands almost 95% of all connections; Peru’s fixed-line teledensity continued its slow dropping below 7% at the end of 2021; investment in network infrastructure is mainly focused on rolling out fiber cable for fixed broadband services in (mainly) urban areas; fixed broadband services inched higher to reach 8.4% at the end of 2020, a positive result that reflected the shift to working from home during enforced lock downs at the start of the year; yet Peru has a relatively low level of computer use, and prices for fixed broadband services are among the highest in Latin America; the overwhelmingly preferred internet access platform will remain the smartphone, with a further 8.6% growth in the number of mobile broadband subscriptions expected in 2021 (2021) |
| Domestic | Fixed-line teledensity is 7 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is 128 telephones per 100 persons (2021) |
| International | Country code - 51; landing points for the SAM-1, IGW, American Movil-Telxius, SAC and PAN-AM submarine cable systems that provide links to parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019) |
| Telephones - fixed lines | |
| Total subscriptions | 1.798 million (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 5 (2022 est.) |
| Telephones - mobile cellular | |
| Total subscriptions | 41.549 million (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 122 (2022 est.) |
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