Jamaica - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesJamaica is located Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba. The climate is tropical; hot, humid; temperate interior. The terrain is mostly mountains, with narrow, discontinuous coastal plain.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 342,000 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 2.495 million (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 : fully automatic domestic telephone network
Telephone system - 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 now exceeds 100 per 100 persons
Telephone system - 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) (2006)
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 10, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios
Radios : 1.215 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 7 (1997)
Televisions
Televisions : 460,000 (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 : .jm
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 : 1,292 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 21 (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 : 1.5 million (2007)
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