Telephones - fixed lines:
total subscriptions: 297,027 (2017 est.)
[see also: Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions country ranks ]
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 10 (2017 est.)
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country comparison to the world: 113

Telephones - mobile cellular:
total subscriptions: 3,091,222 (2017 est.)
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions country ranks ]
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 103 (2017 est.)
[see also: Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 140

Telephone system:
general assessment: fully automatic domestic telephone network; LTE networks providing coverage to 90% of the island population (2017)
domestic: the 1999 agreement to open the market for telecommunications services resulted in rapid growth in mobile-cellular telephone usage 103 per 100 subscriptions, while the number of fixed-lines 10 per 100 subscriptions has declined (2017)
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; the ALBA-1 fiber-optic submarine cable links Jamaica, Cuba, and Venezuela; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2016)

Broadcast media:
3 free-to-air TV stations, subscription cable services, and roughly 30 radio stations (2013)

Internet country code:
.jm

Internet users:
total: 1,336,653 (July 2016 est.)
[see also: Internet users - total country ranks ]
percent of population: 45% (July 2016 est.)
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country comparison to the world: 125

Broadband - fixed subscriptions:
total: 239,120 (2017 est.)
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subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 8 (2017 est.)
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country comparison to the world: 103