unications El Salvador

Telephones - main lines in use:
752,600 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1,149,800 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: NA
domestic: nationwide microwave radio relay system
international: country code - 503; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave
System

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 61 (plus 24 repeaters), FM 30, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:
2.75 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
5 (1997)

Televisions:
600,000 (1990)

Internet country code:
.sv

Internet hosts:
4,084 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
4 (2000)

Internet users:
550,000 (2003)

Transportation El Salvador

Railways:
total: 283 km
narrow gauge: 283 km 0.914-m gauge
note: length of operational route reduced from 562 km to 283 km by
disuse and lack of maintenance (2003)

Highways:
total: 10,029 km
paved: 1,986 km (including 327 km of expressways)
unpaved: 8,043 km (1999 est.)

Waterways:
Rio Lempa partially navigable (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Acajutla, Puerto Cutuco, La Libertad, La Union, Puerto El Triunfo

Merchant marine:
none

Airports:
73 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 4
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 69
914 to 1,523 m: 15
under 914 m: 54 (2004 est.)

Heliports:
1 (2003 est.)

Military El Salvador

Military branches:
Army, Navy (FNES), Air Force

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory military service, with 12-month
service obligation; 16 years of age for volunteers (2002)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 1,571,299 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 995,672 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 69,993 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$157 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.1% (2003)

Transnational Issues El Salvador

Disputes - international:
in 1992, the ICJ ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed
areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras boundary, and the OAS is
assisting with a technical resolution of undemarcated bolsones; in
2003, the ICJ rejected El Salvador's request to revise its decision