El Salvador

Television is the most important medium in the country. It is the most widespread and the one that receives the most from advertisers.

Print page

62

Press freedom ranking
50.3%

Internet penetration
115

Peace index ranking
N/A

Most trusted medium
N/A

Net trust index
Presidential Republic

Government type

Authors

César Castro Fagoaga: Journalist He is the author of the chapters between the Overview and Professional development and of the Conclusion, written in 2018
Andrea Cristancho Cuesta: Consultant and Researcher She is co-author of the chapters between the Overview and Professional development and author of the chapters between Media development organisations and Traditional forms of communications, written in 2018; This report was made possible with the support of FPU. It has been revised with the kind help of Oscar Antonio Pérez and Carlos Augusto Barrera.

Mobile ownership

In the first quarter of 2016 there were 9.4m mobile lines in operation. Of those, 0.9m had a postpaid plan and 8.5m were under a prepaid plan. Using the data access speed as a criterion, in the same quarter of 2016, there were 3,346,250 subscribers with low and medium speed and 2,152,551 with broadband speed. Up to 85 percent of the total Salvadoran population had mobile network coverage. Also, while in 2014 in El Salvador there were 8.8m mobile phones, in 2015 there were 9.2m, which means an increase of 4.5 percent. In 2014, 1.8m of those mobile phones were smartphones, which became 2.4m in 2015, an important 33 percent increase.

El Salvador

62

50.3%

115

N/A

N/A

Presidential Republic

Authors

Mobile ownership

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