Telephones
The state-owned Corporación Paraguaya de Comunicaciones (Copaco) is known for inefficiency and overstaffing. Privatization was attempted in 2002, but failed in the midst of the banking scandal.
With only 5.6 percent of the population having access to a land-line connection, the meager telephone network has resulted in rapid growth in mobile phone use.
- An extremely deprived and meager telephone service;
- Principal switching center is Asunción
- Domestic: microwave radio relay network
- International: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) in 2009
- International country code: 595
- Fixed telephone subscriptions: 364,557; 6.1% of the population in 2011
- Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions: 6,529,053; 99.4% of the population in 2011
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“Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
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Intricate rented world begins to rouse.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)