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Barbados Communications 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Barbados Communications 2012
SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 21,

Telephones - main lines in use:
137,500 (2010)
country comparison to the world: 138
[see also: Telephones - main lines in use country ranks ]

Telephones - mobile cellular:
350,100 (2010)
country comparison to the world: 172
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks ]

Telephone system:
general assessment: island-wide automatic telephone system
domestic: fixed-line teledensity of roughly 50 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density approaching 125 per 100 persons
international: country code - 1-246; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad; satellite earth stations - 1 (Intelsat -Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Trinidad and Saint Lucia (2010)

Broadcast media:
government-owned Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) operates the lone terrestrial television station; CBC also operates a multi-channel cable TV subscription service; roughly a dozen radio stations, consisting of a CBC-operated network alongside privately-owned radio stations, in operation (2007)

Internet country code:
.bb

Internet hosts:
1,522 (2011)
country comparison to the world: 163
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]

Internet users:
188,000 (2008)
country comparison to the world: 143
[see also: Internet users country ranks ]


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Barbados on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Barbados Communications 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Barbados Communications 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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