Barbados - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesBarbados is located Caribbean, island in the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela. The climate is tropical; rainy season (June to October). The terrain is relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 134,900 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 237,100 (2006)
Telephone system
This entry includes a brief general assessment of the system with details on the domestic and international components. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entryTelephone system - general assessment : fixed-line teledensity of roughly 50 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density of about 85 per 100 persons
Telephone system - domestic : island-wide automatic telephone system
Telephone system - 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 (2007)
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 2, FM 6, shortwave 0 (2004)
Radios
Radios : 237,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 1 (plus 2 cable channels) (2004)
Televisions
Televisions : 76,000 (1997)
Internet country code
This entry includes the two-letter codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).Internet country code : .bb
Internet hosts
This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity.Internet hosts : 104 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 19 (2000)
Internet users
This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months.Internet users : 160,000 (2005)
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