The telephone system, radio stations, television stations and internet capabilities all combine to define the communiation infratructure for Jamaica.
Telephones - main lines in use:319,000 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:2.804 million (2005)
Telephone system:general assessment: fully automatic domestic telephone network domestic: the 1999 agreement to open the market for telecommunications services resulted in rapid growth in mobile-cellular telephone usage; mobile-cellular teledensity now exceeds 100 per 100 persons; the number of fixed-lines in use has been declining international: country code - 1-876; the Fibralink submarine cable network provides enhanced delivery of business and broadband traffic and is linked to the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) submarine cable in the Dominican Republic; the link to ARCOS-1 provides seamless connectivity to US, parts of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:AM 10, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)
Television broadcast stations:7 (1997)
Internet country code:.jm
Internet hosts:1,213 (2007)
Internet users:1.232 million (2005)
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