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==సమాచార రంగం ==
జమైకా పూర్తిగా " డిజిటల్ టెలిఫోన్ కమ్యూనికేషన్ సిస్టం " కలిగి ఉంది. ద్వీపంలో 95% మొబైల్ ఫోంస్ ఉన్నాయి.<ref name="EIU">[http://globaltechforum.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=newdebi&country_id=JM&country=Jamaica&title=Doing+eBusiness+in+Jamaica&channelid=6 Doing eBusiness in Jamaica], The Economist Intelligence Unit.</ref>జమైకాలో ఫ్లో జమైకా (లైం, మొబైల్ అండ్ కేబుల్ అండ్ వైర్లెస్ జమైకా మరియు డిజిటల్ జమైకా సంస్థలు మిలియన్ల సంఖ్యలో నెట్వర్క్ కనెక్షన్లు మరియు విస్తరణ సేవలు అందిస్తున్నాయి. 2001లో " ది న్యూయస్ట్ ఆపరేటర్ డిజీసెల్ " సంస్థకు అనుమతి మంజూరు చేయబడింది. <ref>[http://www.cwc.com/assets/uploads/files/Press%20Releases/3g%20launch%20in%20jamaica.pdf LIME 3G launch in 2009]</ref> రెండు ఆపరేటర్లు ద్వీపమంతటా సమాచారసేవలు అందిస్తున్నాయి. <ref>[https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2016/06/13/digicel-jamaica-launches-lte/ Digicel Jamaica launches LTE]</ref> కొత్తగా ప్రవేశించిన " కొలంబస్ కమ్యూనికేషంస్ " కొత్తగా " సబ్ మెరీన్ " కేబుల్ ద్వారా జమైకాను యునైటెడ్ స్టేట్స్‌తో అనుసంధానం చేస్తుంది. న్యూ కేబుల్ సేవలను అభివృద్ధి చేసి జమైకాను మిగిలిన ప్రపంచంతో అనుసంధానించడానికి ప్రయత్నిస్తుంది. <ref>[http://www.cwc.com/live/news-and-media/press-releases/new-flow-brand-unveiled-in-jamaica.html New FLOW brand unveiled in Jamaica]</ref>
Jamaica has a fully [[Digital telephony|digital telephone communication system]] with a mobile penetration of over 95%.
<ref name="EIU">[http://globaltechforum.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=newdebi&country_id=JM&country=Jamaica&title=Doing+eBusiness+in+Jamaica&channelid=6 Doing eBusiness in Jamaica], The Economist Intelligence Unit.</ref>
The country's two mobile operators – [[Flow (brand)|FLOW Jamaica]] (formerly LIME, bMobile and Cable and Wireless Jamaica) and [[Digicel|Digicel Jamaica]] have spent millions in network upgrades and expansion. The newest operator, Digicel was granted a licence in 2001 to operate mobile services in the newly liberalised telecom market that had once been the sole domain of the incumbent FLOW (then Cable and Wireless Jamaica) monopoly. Digicel opted for the more widely used [[GSM]] wireless system, while a past operator, Oceanic (which became Claro Jamaica and later merged with Digicel Jamaica in 2011) opted for the [[CDMA]] standard. FLOW (formerly "LIME" – pre-[[Columbus Communications]] merger) which had begun with [[Digital AMPS|TDMA]] standard, subsequently upgraded to GSM in 2002, decommissioned TDMA in 2006 and only utilised that standard until 2009 when LIME launched its 3G network.
<ref>[http://www.cwc.com/assets/uploads/files/Press%20Releases/3g%20launch%20in%20jamaica.pdf LIME 3G launch in 2009]</ref>
Both operators currently provide islandwide coverage with HSPA+ (3G) technology. Currently, only [[Digicel]] offers LTE to its customers
<ref>[https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2016/06/13/digicel-jamaica-launches-lte/ Digicel Jamaica launches LTE]</ref>
whereas FLOW Jamaica has committed to launching LTE in the cities of Kingston and Montego Bay, places where Digicel's LTE network is currently only found in, in short order.
A new entrant to the Jamaican communications market, [[Columbus Communications|Flow Jamaica]], laid a new [[Submarine communications cable|submarine cable]] connecting Jamaica to the United States. This new cable increases the total number of submarine cables connecting Jamaica to the rest of the world to four. Cable and Wireless Communications (parent company of LIME) acquired the company in late 2014 and replaced their brand LIME with FLOW.
<ref>[http://www.cwc.com/live/news-and-media/press-releases/new-flow-brand-unveiled-in-jamaica.html New FLOW brand unveiled in Jamaica]</ref>
[[Flow (brand)|FLOW Jamaica]] currently has the most broadband and cable subscribers on the island and also has 1 million mobile subscribers,
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