Telecommunications in Barbados - Telephone

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
  • 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);
  • landing point for:
  • 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
  • Current: LIME, Digicel, Sunbeach
  • Defunct: Cingular Wireless(divested to Digicel)

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