Telecommunications in the Bahamas is accomplished through the transmission of information by various types of technologies within The Bahamas, mainly telephones, radio, television, and the Internet.

Status

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|valign="top" |Telephones:

|valign="top" |137,000 fixed lines, 141st in the world (2012).<br/>

254,000 mobile cellular lines, 176th in the world (2012).<br/>71.7% of the population, 47th in the world (2012).<br/>2.8% of the population, 120th in the world (2012).<br/>121,856 IPv4 addresses allocated, 385 for every 1,000 people (2012).

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|valign="top" |.bs There were no government restrictions on access to the Internet or credible reports that the government monitors e-mail or Internet chat rooms without judicial oversight.

The constitution provides for freedom of speech and press, and the government generally respects these rights in practice. An independent press combined with a relatively effective—albeit extremely backlogged—judiciary, and a functioning democratic political system ensures freedom of speech and press. The constitution prohibits arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence, and the government generally respects these prohibitions in practice. Also in April Rodney Moncur was charged with "committing a grossly indecent act" by posting autopsy photographs of a man who died in police custody on his Facebook page.

Phone calls to the Bahamas are monitored by the U.S. National Security Agency's MYSTIC program.

See also

  • Bahamas
  • BTC (Bahamas), Bahamas Telecommunications Company, primary telecommunications provider for the Bahamas, partly government owned.
  • List of television stations in the Caribbean
  • Television in the Bahamas
  • ZNS-1, Radio Bahamas, state-owned
  • ZNS-TV 13, state-owned

References

  • BSNIC, Bahamas Network Information Center.
  • Bahamas Telecommunications Company, website.
  • ZNS Bahamas, website.
  • Bahamas, SubmarineCableMap.com