Telephones - main lines in use: Telephones - mobile cellular: Telephone system:
Broadcast media: Internet hosts: Internet users:
144,000 (2012)
country comparison to the world: 137
[see also: Telephones - main lines in use country ranks ]
347,000 (2012)
country comparison to the world: 172
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular country ranks ]
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)
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)
1,524 (2012)
country comparison to the world: 167
[see also: Internet hosts country ranks ]
188,000 (2008)
country comparison to the world: 143
[see also: Internet users country ranks ]
Barbados Communications 2015
https://photius.com/world_fact_book_2015/barbados/barbados_communications.html
SOURCE: 2015 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES
