Telephone
The rate of telecommunications penetration in Barbados ranks among the highest in the world. According to the International Telecommunication Union, telephone service for the period 2000-2004, stated Barbados had 124 telephones in usage for every 100 people. Telecommunications are virtually universally accessible to all.
- Telephones - main lines in use
- 134,900 (2005)
- county comparison to the world: 133
- Telephones - mobile cellular
- 237,100 (2006)
- county comparison to the world: 165
- Telephone system
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- general assessment: fixed-line teledensity of roughly 50 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density of about 85 per 100 persons
- domestic: island-wide automatic telephone system
- international access code: +1.246 (in the North American Numbering Plan, Area code 246);
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- landing point for:
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- 1) 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;
- 2); the Antilles Crossing Phase 1 link to the US Virgin Islands via Saint Lucia;
- satellite earth stations - 1 (Intelsat - Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Trinidad and Saint Lucia (2007)
- Mobile providers
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- Current: LIME, Digicel, Sunbeach
- Defunct: Cingular Wireless(divested to Digicel)
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Famous quotes containing the word telephone:
“The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)