Media and communications

Santa Catarina has an efficient communications system which enables contact with any part of the country, and abroad by means of imaging, text, data and voice. The State is also connected to the mobile maritime service, which makes contact possible by telephone or by message with ocean going vessels in any part of the planet.

All of Santa Catarina’s municipalities are covered by fixed telephone (1.6 million lines) and almost the whole territory is connected by mobile telephony (1.3 million mobile phones). High speed internet connections are available for domestic and business use and the State is interconnected by fiber optic underwater cable (Unisur) with Argentina and Uruguay.

All regions receive local and national television channels and cable and satellite TV services. There are 240 radio stations (184 commercial and 56 communitarian), 20 television stations, open and paid, 135 newspapers and an array of regionally distributed magazines.