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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.
- An extremely deprived and meager telephone service;
- Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions: 6,529,053; 99.4% of the population in 2011
Radio and television
As in many South American countries, radio is an important disseminator of information in Paraguay.
- Internet users: 1,543,715; 24% of the population in 2011 (95th in the world)
- Households with Internet access at home: 19.3% in 2011
- Fixed broadband Internet subscriptions: 28,147; 0.44% of the population in 2010
- IPv4 addresses allocated: 365,312; 5.6 per 100 inhabitants
Censorship
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.
Media crackdown following June 2012 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.
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. 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.
See also
- Media of Paraguay
- List of internet service providers in Paraguay
- List of radio stations in Paraguay
- Telephone numbers in Paraguay