Barbados: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 156,857 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 54 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 335,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 115 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: island-wide automatic telephone system domestic: fixed-line teledensity of roughly 55 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density about 115 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 (2015) |
Broadcast media | government-owned Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) operates the lone terrestrial TV station; CBC also operates a multi-channel cable TV subscription service; roughly a dozen radio stations, consisting of a CBC-operated network operating alongside p (2007) |
Internet country code | .bb |
Internet users | total: 221,000 percent of population: 76.1% (July 2015 est.) |