Telephones - main lines in use:
316,600 (2008)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.723 million (2008)

Telephone system:
general assessment: fully automatic domestic telephone network
domestic: the 1999 agreement to open the market for telecommunications services resulted in rapid growth in mobile-cellular telephone usage while the number of fixed-lines in use has declined; combined mobile-cellular teledensity now roughly 100 per 100 persons
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; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2008)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 10, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
7 (1997)

Internet country code:
.jm

Internet hosts:
3,961 (2009)

Internet users:
1.54 million (2008)