El Salvador is one of the few markets in Latin America where the mobile communications market is larger than the fixed market. This relationship between fixed and mobile markets is set to be replicated across Central America as mobile adoption picks up in neighboring countries. While mobile communications services generated $248m in revenues in 2003, local services generated $209m. Domestic long-distance service revenues are relatively small in El Salvador given the small size of the country and the limited number of local areas.
