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Jamaica Communications 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











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


Page last updated on February 23,

Telephones - main lines in use:
263,100 (2010)
country comparison to the world: 121
[see also: Telephones - main lines in use country ranks ]

Telephones - mobile cellular:
3.103 million (2010)
country comparison to the world: 120
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks ]

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 while the number of fixed-lines in use has declined; combined mobile-cellular teledensity approached 120 per 100 persons in 2010
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) (2008)

Broadcast media:
privately-owned Radio Jamaica Limited and its subsidiaries operate multiple television stations, subscription cable services, and radio stations; 2 other privately-owned television stations broadcast; roughly 70 radio stations (2007)

Internet country code:
.jm

Internet hosts:
3,897 (2011)
country comparison to the world: 147
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]

Internet users:
1.581 million (2009)
country comparison to the world: 80
[see also: Internet users country ranks ]


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Jamaica 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 Jamaica Communications 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Jamaica 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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