Jamaica: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 252,630 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 9 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 3.137 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 106 (July 2015 est.) |
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 fixed-line and mobile cellular teledensity exceeds 110 per 100 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 pr (2015) |
Broadcast media | 3 free-to-air TV stations, subscription cable services, and roughly 30 radio stations (2013) |
Internet country code | .jm |
Internet users | total: 1.274 million percent of population: 43.2% (July 2015 est.) |