Introduction
How is the communication system in Jamaica? Here, Broadcast media include 3 free-to-air TV stations, subscription cable services, and roughly 30 radio stations (2019). What about Telecommuication systems and Internet? Explore this article to find out more.
More about communication in Jamaica
| Internet country code | .jm |
|---|---|
| Broadband - fixed subscriptions | |
| Total | 385,603 (2020 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 13 (2020 est.) |
| Internet users | |
| Total | 2.296 million (2021 est.) |
| Percent of population | 82% (2021 est.) |
| Telecommunication systems | |
| General assessment | Jamaica’s telecom sector has for many years been propped up by the mobile sector, which accounts for the vast majority of internet connections and voice lines; it also accounts for just over half of telecom sector revenue; in December 2020, the government announced the rollout of a national broadband network costing up to $237 million; the funding will be spent on improving connectivity in under served areas, improving access to education, and deploying networks to public locations such as hospitals, municipal institutions, and police stations; to aid in this national broadband effort, the government received a donation of 650km of fiber cabling from local cable TV providers and the two main toll road operators; to encourage the use of digital channels as the country deals with the Covid-19 pandemic (2021) |
| Domestic | Fixed-line subscriptions nearly 17 per 100, cellular-mobile roughly 103 per 100 subscriptions (2021) |
| International | Country code - 1-876 and 1-658; landing points for the ALBA-1, CFX-1, Fibralink, East-West, and Cayman-Jamaican Fiber System submarine cables providing connections to South America, parts of the Caribbean, Central America and the US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019) |
| Telephones - fixed lines | |
| Total subscriptions | 447,000 (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 16 (2022 est.) |
| Telephones - mobile cellular | |
| Total subscriptions | 3.003 million (2022 est.) |
| Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants | 106 (2022 est.) |
All Important Facts about Jamaica
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