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Communications in Barbados

Barbadian or Bajan (colloquial) Communications

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Telephones - main lines in use: 134,900 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 237,100 (2006)

Telephone system: general assessment: fixed-line teledensity of roughly 50 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density of about 85 per 100 persons domestic: island-wide automatic telephone system 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 (2007)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 6, shortwave 0 (2004)

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

Internet country code: .bb

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 160,000 (2005)