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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Jamaica is found in Caribbean