Since being liberalized in 1991, the Colombian telecommunications sector has added new services, expanded coverage, improved efficiency, and lowered costs.
The measure enabled the industry to expand rapidly, and in 2004 it constituted 2.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
[1] As a result of increasing competition, Colombia has a relatively modern telecommunications infrastructure that primarily serves larger towns and cities.
[1] The country's teledensity (the density of telephone lines in a community) is relatively high for Latin America (17 percent in 2006).
One cable lands on the Pacific Ocean coast at Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca.
In 2006 the number of personal computers per 1,000 people increased to an estimated 87 per 1,000 inhabitants, a rate still below that in other large Latin American economies.