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Costa Rica
Population: 4,195,914
Landlines: 1.437 million
Celluar: 1.503 million
Telephone system: general assessment: good domestic telephone service in terms of breadth of coverage; restricted cellular telephone service; state-run monopoly provider is struggling with the demand for new lines, resulting in long waiting times domestic: point-to-point and point-to-multi-point microwave, fiber-optic, and coaxial cable link rural areas; Internet service is available international: country code - 506; landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) fiber-optic telecommunications submarine cable and the MAYA-1 submarine cable that provide links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; connected to Central American Microwave System; satellite earth stations.
Radio broadcast stations: AM 65, FM 51, shortwave 19
Country code: .cr
Internet hosts: 13,792
Internet users: 1.5 million


United Kingdom
Population: 60,943,912
Land lines: 33.682 million
Celluar: 71.992 million
Telephone System: General assessment: technologically advanced domestic and international system domestic: equal mix of buried cables, microwave radio relay, and fiber-optic systems international: country code - 44; numerous submarine cables provide links throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and US; satellite earth stations - 10 Intelsat (7 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region), and 1 Eutelsat; at least 8 large international switching centers.
Radio broadcast stations: AM 219, FM 431, shortwave 3
Country Code: .uk
Internet hosts: 5.118 million
Internet Users: 40.2 million

As you can see for this activity I compared Costa Rica and the United Kingdom. When I compared the data it wasn't long before I could see the huge economic difference between the two. For example there are more moblie phone users in UK alone then there are people in Costa Rica. One thing I did find in common however was that both countries had more cellluar users than landline users, this tells me that technology has evolved and that the more traditional landline based phone system has been replaced by mobiles. I think that it is safe to assume that Costa Rica is very far behind the UK, and the divide could take generations to close.