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Jamaica:
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Other pages in this profile of Jamaica:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
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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) |
Internet users |
1.232 million (2005) |
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Airports |
34 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
total: 11 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 4 under 914 m: 5 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways |
total: 23 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 21 (2007) |
Roadways |
total: 20,996 km paved: 15,386 km (includes 33 km of expressways) unpaved: 5,610 km (2004) |
Merchant marine |
total: 13 ships (1000 GRT or over) 161,700 GRT/241,663 DWT by type: bulk carrier 6, cargo 2, carrier 1, petroleum tanker 1, roll on/roll off 3 foreign-owned: 12 (Denmark 1, Germany 1, Greece 8, Latvia 2) registered in other countries: 1 (Panama 1) (2007) |
Ports and terminals |
Kingston, Port Esquivel, Port Kaiser, Port Rhoades, Rocky Point |
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