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Central America Internet Stats > Site Links > Guatemala
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Guatemala
Internet usage,
broadband and telecommunications reports
Internet Usage Statistics:
1,320,000
Internet users as of August, 2007;
10.2% of the population, according to ITU.
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The Republic of Guatemala is a country in Central
America bordered by Mexico to the northwest, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest,
Belize and the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to
the southeast. It is the most populous nation in Central America. Guatemala is
a representative democracy with its capital at Guatemala City.
Latest Population
Estimate:
13,002,206
is the population estimate for 2008, according to US Census Bureau.
Latest Country GNI
Estimate:
GNI per
capita was US$ 2,400 for 2006, according to the World
Bank.
Country Area (Size):
108,894 sq
km - Population density: 114 persons per sq km
Internet Usage and
Population Growth:
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YEAR
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Population
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Users
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% Penet.
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Usage
Source
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2000
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11,237,196
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65,000
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0.6
%
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ITU
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2005
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12,328,453
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756,000
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6.1
%
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ITU
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2008
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13,002,206
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1,320,000
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10.2
%
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ITU
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Guatemala Search
Engines:
Guatemala Search
Engines.
Guatemala Profiles:
BBC Profile for
Guatemala
CIA Profile for
Guatemala
Guatemala Profile in
Wikipedia
Guatemala travel guide from
Wikitravel
Telecommunications Report for
Guatemala
While telecom infrastructure
in Guatemala is fairly modern in the main urban centres, rural
telephony remains inadequate and antiquated, though a lot better
that prior to the 1996 liberalisation of the telecom market. With
a high percentage of the population living in rural areas, the
country’s fixed-line teledensity is at the low end of the
scale for Latin America. Though also not high by Latin American
standards, mobile telephony has been a fast growing market,
helped along by one of the most liberal radio spectrum regulatory
models in the world. Mobile phones overtook fixed lines in 2001,
and are now more than double the number of fixed lines in
service. This report provides an overview of the country’s
telecom sector accompanied by relevant statistics, and brief
profiles of the main operators. Get this report
now.
Recommended Market Reports on Central
America:
Telecommunications, Telecoms, Mobile and
Broadband in Central America
Central American countries are Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Nicaragua, and Panama, all of which are small countries with generally low GDP per
capita but with considerable scope for development in all telecom sectors. This
annual report offers a wealth of information on the trends and developments in
fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony, Internet, broadband, digital TV, and
converging media including VoIP and IPTV developments. See the table of content and executive summary
here.
Click on this link to see the latest Telecommunications
Market Reports for Central America. More statistics, figures and updates become available all the
time.
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