Telecommunications in Paraguay

Telecommunications in Paraguay are meager. Paraguay has the lowest fixed-line telephone density in South America, with 5.6 lines per 100 residents, compared with 8.7 per 100 in Bolivia, 21.9 in Brazil, and 24.9 in Argentina.[1]

## Telephones

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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.[2]

With only 5.6 percent of the population having access to a land-line connection,[1] the meager telephone network has resulted in rapid growth in mobile phone use.[2][3]

* An extremely deprived and meager telephone service;[3]
* Principal switching center is Asunción[3]
* Domestic: microwave radio relay network[2]
* International: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) in 2009[3]
* International country code: 595[3]
* Fixed telephone subscriptions: 364,557; 6.1% of the population in 2011[1]
* Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions: 6,529,053; 99.4% of the population in 2011[4]

## Radio and television

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As in many South American countries, radio is an important disseminator of information in Paraguay.[2]

* Radio stations: roughly 75 commercial and community stations; one state-owned radio network in 2010[3]
* Radios: 4.475,000 in 1997[2]
* Television broadcast stations: 6 privately owned and one state-owned in 2010[3]
* Televisions: 4.429,000 in 1997; 750,000 households in 2004[2]

## Internet

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* Country code (top level domain): .py[3]
* Households with a computer: 22.7% in 2011[5]
* Internet users: 1,543,715; 24% of the population in 2011 (95th in the world)[6]
* Households with Internet access at home: 19.3% in 2011[5]
* Internet hosts: 278,473; 64th in the world in 2010[7]
* Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions: 28,147; 0.44% of the population in 2010[8]
* IPv4 addresses allocated: 365,312; 5.6 per 100 inhabitants[9]

## Censorship

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Main articles: Censorship by country and Internet censorship by country

The law provides for freedom of speech and press, and the government generally respects these rights in practice. Individuals criticize the government publicly and privately, generally without reprisal or impediment. There are no government restrictions on access to the Internet or credible reports that the government monitored e-mail or Internet chat rooms. Individuals and groups could engage in the expression of views via the Internet, including by e-mail.[10]

### Media crackdown following June 2012 Impeachment of Fernando Lugo

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See also: Impeachment of Fernando Lugo

Following 22 June 2012 parliamentary coup that ousted President Fernando Lugo and made then Vice President, Federico Franco, the new president, the new government appears to be in the process of assuming complete control of the state-owned media and its hostility is affecting journalists with the privately owned media as well.[11][12][13]

In what is seem as an attempt by the government to further control the media, the leader of the Paraguay Broadcasters Union (URP) has called for action against "more than 1,200 pirate radios operating in the country" which he accused of "inciting crime" on many occasions. He also asked the telecoms watchdog CONATEL to withdraw the licences of all stations implicated in what he termed illegal acts, without specifying what they were.[14] There is tension between community radio stations, many of which were staunch opponents of 22 June coup, and the new government due to changes in the recently amended Telecommunications law that could adversely affect the future of community radio stations, many of which are poorly funded and not yet in possession of broadcasting licences. New clauses in the law place a ban on advertising on such stations, restrict their transmission range, and open the possibility of legal action against their representatives if they broadcast without a licence.[15]

## See also

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* Paraguay portal
* Freedom of speech portal
* Telecommunication portal
* Media portal

* Media of Paraguay
* List of internet service providers in Paraguay
* List of radio stations in Paraguay
* Telephone numbers in Paraguay

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Fixed-telephone subscriptions 2000-2011", International Telecommunication Union (ITU), retrieved 24 September 2012
2. ^ a b c d e f Paraguay country profile. Library of Congress Federal Research Division (October 2005). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Paraguay", The World Factbook, US Central Intelligence Agency, 11 September 2012. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
4. ^ "Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions", International Telecommunication Union (ITU), retrieved 24 September 2012
5. ^ a b "Core indicators on access to, and use of, ICT by households and individuals, latest available data", International Telecommunication Union (ITU), retrieved 24 September 2012
6. ^ Percentage of Individuals using the Internet 2000-2011, International Telecommunication Union, retrieved 19 August 2012.
7. ^ "Internet hosts", CIA World Factbook, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, retrieved 2 April 2012
8. ^ Fixed broadband subscriptions, International Telecommunication Union. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
9. ^ Select Formats Archived 13 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Country IP Blocks. Retrieved 2 April 2012. Note: Site is said to be updated daily.
10. ^ "Paraguay", Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 25 May 2012. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
11. ^ "Censorship at Radio Nacional, threats and violence from president’s inner circle", Reporters Without Borders, 19 September 2011
12. ^ "In continuing purge, 27 employees fired from state TV", Reporters Without Borders, 5 September 2012
13. ^ "Purges in state media, community radios on alert", Reporters Without Borders, 13 July 2012
14. ^ "Community radio stations face crackdown for 'inciting crime'", Reporters Without Borders, 14 August 2012
15. ^ "Purges in state media, community radios on alert", Reporters Without Borders, 12 July 2012

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Censorship

Media regulation|

* Books
* books banned
* Films
* banned films
* Internet
* circumvention
* Music
* Postal
* Press
* Radio
* Speech and expression
* Student media
* Televisions
* banned televisions
* Thought
* Video games
* banned video games

Methods|

* Bleeping
* Book burning
* Broadcast delay
* By copyright
* Cancel culture
* Censor bars
* Chilling effect
* Collateral censorship
* Concision
* Conspiracy of silence
* Content-control software
* Damnatio memoriae
* De-banking
* Deplatforming
* Euphemism
* Minced oath
* Expurgation
* Fogging
* Gag order
* Gatekeeping
* Hallin's spheres
* Heckling
* Heckler's veto
* Hush money
* Internet police
* Malinformation
* Media blackout
* Memory hole
* National intranet
* News embargo
* Newspaper theft
* Non-disclosure agreement
* Opinion corridor
* Overton window
* Pixelization
* Political correctness
* Prior restraint
* Propaganda
* Purge
* Redaction
* Revisionism
* Sanitization
* Self-censorship
* Shadow banning
* Social rejection
* Speech code
* Spiral of silence
* Strategic lawsuit
* Super-injunction
* Surveillance
* computer and network
* mass
* Taboo
* Whitewashing
* Word filtering

Contexts|

* AI
* Algorithmic
* Chinese censorship abroad
* Criminal
* Corporate
* Apple
* Facebook
* Google
* Hate speech
* Online
* Ideological
* Academic
* LGBT issues
* Media bias
* Moral police
* Moralistic fallacy
* Naturalistic fallacy
* Political censorship
* Banned parties
* Political prisoner
* Propaganda model
* Religious
* Blasphemy law
* Islamic
* Police
* Suppression of dissent
* Systemic bias
* Wikipedia

By location|

* Censorship by country
* Blasphemy law
* Freedom of speech
* Internet censorship
* In the Middle East
* In South Asia

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Paraguay articles

History|

* Guaraní people
* Governorate of New Andalusia
* Jesuit reduction
* José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
* Carlos Antonio López
* Francisco Solano López
* Paraguayan War
* First Civil War
* Second Civil War
* Chaco War
* February Revolution
* Third Civil War
* 1954 coup d'état
* Dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner
* 1989 coup d'état
* 1996 coup d'état attempt
* Marzo paraguayo
* 2000 coup d'état attempt
* 2012 political crisis
* 2017 political crisis

Geography|

* Cities
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* Environmental issues
* Fauna
* Flora
* National parks
* Protected areas
* World Heritage Sites

Politics|

* Administrative divisions
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* Foreign relations
* Military
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* Presidents

Legal system and issues|

* Civil Code
* Constitution
* Human rights
* Abortion
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* Law enforcement
* Nationality
* Supreme Court

Economy|

* Agriculture
* Companies
* Ecotourism
* Energy
* Central Bank
* Guaraní (currency)
* Science and technology
* Stock Exchange
* Telecommunications
* Transport

Society|

* Demographics
* Education
* Health
* Crime
* Immigration
* Indigenous peoples
* Languages
* LGBT
* List of Paraguayans
* Women

Religion|

* Freedom of religion
* Baháʼí
* Catholic Church
* Islam
* Judaism
* LDS
* Mennonites
* San La Muerte

Culture|

* Cinema
* Cuisine
* Literature
* Media
* Music
* Public holidays
* Sport
* Symbols
* Anthem
* Coat of arms
* Flag
* Tourism

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Telecommunications in the Americas

Sovereign
states|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Argentina
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Canada
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* El Salvador
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Suriname
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Dependencies
and territories|

* Anguilla
* Aruba
* Bermuda
* Bonaire
* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Falkland Islands
* French Guiana
* Greenland
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Montserrat
* Puerto Rico
* Saba
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Martin
* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* Sint Eustatius
* Sint Maarten
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands

* North America
* Central America
* Caribbean
*   *   *   * South America

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Telecommunications

History|

* Beacon
* Broadcasting
* Cable protection system
* Cable TV
* Communications satellite
* Computer network
* Data compression
* audio
* DCT
* image
* video
* Digital media
* Internet video
* online video platform
* social media
* streaming
* Drums
* Edholm's law
* Electrical telegraph
* Fax
* Heliographs
* Hydraulic telegraph
* Information Age
* Information revolution
* Internet
* Mass media
* Mobile phone
* Smartphone
* Optical telecommunication
* Optical telegraphy
* Pager
* Photophone
* Prepaid mobile phone
* Radio
* Radiotelephone
* Satellite communications
* Semaphore
* Phryctoria
* Semiconductor
* device
* MOSFET
* transistor
* Smoke signals
* Telecommunications history
* Telautograph
* Telegraphy
* Teleprinter (teletype)
* Telephone
* The Telephone Cases
* Television
* digital
* streaming
* Undersea telegraph line
* Videotelephony
* Whistled language
* Wireless revolution

Pioneers|

* Nasir Ahmed
* Edwin Howard Armstrong
* Mohamed M. Atalla
* John Logie Baird
* Paul Baran
* John Bardeen
* Alexander Graham Bell
* Emile Berliner
* Tim Berners-Lee
* Francis Blake
* Jagadish Chandra Bose
* Charles Bourseul
* Walter Houser Brattain
* Vint Cerf
* Claude Chappe
* Yogen Dalal
* Donald Davies
* Daniel Davis Jr.
* Amos Dolbear
* Thomas Edison
* Philo Farnsworth
* Reginald Fessenden
* Lee de Forest
* Elisha Gray
* Oliver Heaviside
* Robert Hooke
* Erna Schneider Hoover
* Harold Hopkins
* Gardiner Greene Hubbard
* Bob Kahn
* Dawon Kahng
* Charles K. Kao
* Narinder Singh Kapany
* Hedy Lamarr
* Roberto Landell
* Innocenzo Manzetti
* Guglielmo Marconi
* Robert Metcalfe
* Antonio Meucci
* Samuel Morse
* Jun-ichi Nishizawa
* Charles Grafton Page
* Radia Perlman
* Alexander Stepanovich Popov
* Tivadar Puskás
* Johann Philipp Reis
* Claude Shannon
* Almon Brown Strowger
* Henry Sutton
* Charles Sumner Tainter
* Nikola Tesla
* Camille Tissot
* Alfred Vail
* Thomas A. Watson
* Charles Wheatstone
* Vladimir K. Zworykin
* Internet pioneers

Transmission
media|

* Coaxial cable
* Fiber-optic communication
* optical fiber
* Free-space optical communication
* Molecular communication
* Radio waves
* wireless
* Transmission line
* telecommunication circuit

Network topology
and switching|

* Bandwidth
* Links
* Network switching
* circuit
* packet
* Nodes
* terminal
* Telephone exchange

Multiplexing|

* Space-division
* Frequency-division
* Time-division
* Polarization-division
* Orbital angular-momentum
* Code-division

Concepts|

* Communication protocol
* Computer network
* Data transmission
* Store and forward
* Telecommunications equipment

Types of network|

* Cellular network
* Ethernet
* ISDN
* LAN
* Mobile
* NGN
* Public Switched Telephone
* Radio
* Television
* Telex
* UUCP
* WAN
* Wireless network

Notable networks|

* ARPANET
* BITNET
* CYCLADES
* FidoNet
* Internet
* Internet2
* JANET
* NPL network
* TANet
* Toasternet
* Usenet

Locations|

* Africa
* Americas
* North
* South
* Antarctica
* Asia
* Europe
* Oceania
* Global telecommunications regulation bodies

* Telecommunication portal
* Category
* Outline
* Commons

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Internet censorship and surveillance by country

Africa|

* Algeria
* Angola
* Botswana
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cameroon
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Congo DR
* Congo RO
* Egypt
* Eritrea
* Ethiopia
* Gambia
* Ghana
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Ivory Coast
* Kenya
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Libya
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Mauritania
* Morocco (Western Sahara)
* Mozambique
* Namibia
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Rwanda
* Senegal
* Sierra Leone
* Somalia
* South Africa
* Sudan
* Swaziland
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

Americas|

* Argentina
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Canada
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* El Salvador
* Greenland
* Guatemala
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Suriname
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States
* Puerto Rico
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Asia|

* Afghanistan
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Bhutan
* Cambodia
* China
* East Timor
* Hong Kong
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Israel
* Japan
* Jordan
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Malaysia
* Mongolia
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* North Korea
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Palestinian territories
* Philippines
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* South Korea
* Sri Lanka
* Syria
* Taiwan
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Turkmenistan
* United Arab Emirates
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam
* Yemen

Europe|

* Albania
* Armenia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Germany (YouTube video blocking)
* Georgia
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Italy
* Kazakhstan
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Moldova
* Montenegro
* Netherlands
* North Macedonia
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom

Oceania|

* Australia
* Fiji
* New Zealand
* Papua New Guinea

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