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Telephones - main lines in use
134,900 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular
206,200 (2005)
Telephone system
general assessment: fixed-line teledensity of roughly 50 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density of 75 per 100 persons
domestic: island-wide automatic telephone system
international: country code - 1-246; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) optic 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 hosts
104 (2007)
Internet users
160,000 (2005)
Airports
1 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways
total: 1
over 3,047 m: 1 (2007)
Roadways
total: 1,600 km
paved: 1,600 km (2004)
Merchant marine
total: 71 ships (1000 GRT or over) 539,579 GRT/793,899 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 13, cargo 39, chemical tanker 6, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 3, refrigerated cargo 5, roll on/roll off 2, specialized tanker 1
foreign-owned: 67 (Bahamas, The 1, Canada 9, Greece 11, India 1, Lebanon 1, Monaco 1, Norway 35, Sweden 5, UK 3)
registered in other countries: 1 (St Vincent and The Grenadines 1) (2007)
Ports and terminals
Bridgetown


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