Exchange rates:
Jamaican dollars (JMD) per US dollar - 87.41 (2010), 87.894 (2009), 72.236 (2008), 69.034 (2007), 65.768 (2006)
Communications ::Jamaica
Telephones - main lines in use:
302,300 (2009) country comparison to the world: 113
Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.971 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 114
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 exceeded 110 per 100 persons in 2009