| Communications | Barbados |
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Telephones - main lines in use:
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137,500 (2010) |
Telephones - main lines in use density:
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480 Telephones - main lines in use per 1000 people |
Telephones - mobile cellular:
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350,100 (2010) |
Telephones - mobile cellular - density:
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1,222 mobile cellular telephones in use per 1000 capita |
Telephone system:
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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 (2010) |
Broadcast media:
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government-owned Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) operates the lone terrestrial television station; CBC also operates a multi-channel cable TV subscription service; roughly a dozen radio stations, consisting of a CBC-operated network alongside privately-owned radio stations, in operation (2007) |
Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 2, FM 13, shortwave 0 (2009) |
Radio broadcast stations AM density:
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143,353 people per AM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations FM density:
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22,055 people per FM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations shortwave density:
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void |
Television broadcast stations:
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1 (plus 2 cable channels) (2004) |
Television broadcast stations density:
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286,705 people per Television broadcast station |
Internet country code:
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.bb |
Internet hosts:
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1,508 (2010) |
Internet users:
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188,000 (2008) |
Internet users - density:
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656 internet users per 1000 capita |
Communications - note:
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void |
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