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.
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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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Aruba is found in Caribbean