Jamaica Communications 2008

Telephones - main lines in use:
319,000 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.804 million (2005)

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; mobile-cellular teledensity now exceeds 100 per 100 persons; the number of fixed-lines in use has been declining
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)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 10, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
7 (1997)

Internet country code:
.jm

Internet hosts:
1,213 (2007)