Cayman Islands - Communications

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Cayman Islands is located Caribbean, three-island group (Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, Little Cayman) in Caribbean Sea, 240 km south of Cuba and 268 km northwest of Jamaica. The climate is tropical marine; warm, rainy summers (May to October) and cool, relatively dry winters (November to April). The terrain is low-lying limestone base surrounded by coral reefs.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 38,000 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 33,800 (2004)

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 entry
Telephone system - general assessment : reasonably good system
Telephone system - domestic : liberalization of telecom market in 2003; introduction of competition in the mobile-cellular market in 2004
Telephone system - international : country code - 1-345; landing point for the MAYA-1 submarine telephone cable network that provides links to the US and parts of Central and South America; submarine cable provides connectivity to Jamaica; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 0 (2004)

Radios

Radios : 36,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 4 with cable system (2004)

Televisions

Televisions : 7,000 (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 : .ky

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 : 4,648 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 16 (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 : 22,000 (2007)

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