Argentina Travel Guide - Communications

Country code: 54. Phone centres known as locutorios can be found in most towns. Users are given their own phone booth and calls are added up and paid for at the end. Public pay phones are available in shops and restaurants and on some streets. These take 1 peso or 50 and 25 centavos coins. Most public telephones accept international phone cards.

Roaming agreements exist with some international mobile phone companies. Coverage is good.

Available in most towns and cities.

Airmail to Europe generally takes between five and 10 days. Surface mail to Europe takes on average 20 to 25 days but can take as long as 50 days, so it is advisable to send everything airmail. An express service offers guaranteed 24-hour delivery in Argentina, and one to five days worldwide. The main post office in Buenos Aires is located in Sarmiento 189.

Post office hours: Generally Mon-Fri 0800-2000, Sat 0900-1300, with some regional variation.

The media enjoys press freedom in Argentina. Newspapers, magazines, radio and television are generally independent and trustworthy sources of information.

• Argentina's principal dailies include Clarín, La Nación, Crónica, El Cronista Commercial, Página 12, Diario Popular and La Prensa.
• The Buenos Aires Herald is the leading English-language newspaper in Latin America.
• The Argentimes is an English-language newspaper for young people.

• There are about 40 TV broadcast stations.
• After Brazil and Mexico, Argentina has the largest number of TV receivers in the region.
• Cable TV is prevalent.
• There are five 'superstations' in Buenos Aires, four of which are privately owned (Channels 2, 9, 11 and 13) and one which remains public (Channel 7).

• There are hundreds of radio stations in Argentina, many of them unlicensed.
• Some of the biggest and best known stations are Radio Nacional, Radio America, FM Palermo and Radio Mitre.