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Barbados Communications 2016
https://allcountries.org/world_fact_book_2016/barbados/barbados_communications.html
SOURCE: 2016 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Barbados Communications 2016
SOURCE: 2016 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 11, 2016

Telephones - fixed lines:
total subscriptions: 150,000
[see also: Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions country ranks ]
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 52 (2014 est.)
[see also: Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 138

Telephones - mobile cellular:
total: 305,500
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular - total country ranks ]
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 105 (2014 est.)
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 176

Telephone system:
general assessment: island-wide automatic telephone system
domestic: fixed-line teledensity of roughly 50 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density approaching 125 per 100 persons
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 (2009)

Broadcast media:
government-owned Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) operates the lone terrestrial TV station; CBC also operates a multi-channel cable TV subscription service; roughly a dozen radio stations, consisting of a CBC-operated network operating alongside privately owned radio stations (2007)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 13, shortwave 0 (2009)

Television - broadcast stations:
1 (plus 2 cable channels) (2004)

Internet country code:
.bb

Internet hosts:
1,524 (2012)
country comparison to the world: 167
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]

Internet users:
total: 227,400
[see also: Internet users - total country ranks ]
percent of population: 78.5% (2014 est.)
[see also: Internet users - percent of population country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 152


NOTE: The information regarding Barbados on this page is re-published from the 2016 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Barbados Communications 2016 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Barbados Communications 2016 should be addressed to the CIA.




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