Honduras Travel Guide - Communications

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Telephone

Country code: 504.

Mobile Telephone

Roaming agreements exist with international mobile phone companies. Coverage is generally good along the coasts and around major towns.

Internet

Internet cafes exist in major towns.

Post

Airmail to Western Europe takes between four and seven days.

Post office hours: Mon-Sat 0800-1200 and 1400-1800.

Media

The media is restricted by punitive defamation laws, which, in certain cases, require journalists to reveal their sources. Journalists tend to exercise self-censorship in order to avoid offending the political or economic interests of the media bigwigs, and cases of journalists accepting bribes from officials who wish to influence coverage are not unknown.

Press

• Daily newspapers are in Spanish and privately owned.
• They include El Heraldo, La Prensa, El Tiempo and La Tribuna.
• The weekly Honduras This Week is published in English.

TV

Televicentro operates Telesistema Hondureno, Canal 5 El Lider and Telecadena 7 y 4.
• Other networks are: CBC Canal 6, Vica TV and SOTEL Canal 11.

Radio

• Radio America and Radio HRN are both privately-owned national stations.




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