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CommunicationsTelephones - main lines in use World Ranking: 172
35,500 (2011)
Telephones - mobile cellular World Ranking: 182
162,800 (2011)
Telephone system
General assessment
Good automatic telephone system Domestic Fixed-line teledensity roughly 40 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is some 180 per 100 persons International Country code - 1-268; landing points for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) and the Global Caribbean Network (GCN) submarine cable systems with links to other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad; satellite earth stations - 2; tropospheric scatter to Saba (Netherlands) and Guadeloupe (France) (2011) Broadcast media
State-controlled Antigua and Barbuda Broadcasting Service (ABS) operates 1 TV station; multi-channel cable TV subscription services are available; ABS operates 1 radio station; roughly 15 radio stations, some broadcasting on multiple frequencies (2007) Internet country code
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Internet hosts World Ranking: 130
11,844 (2010)
Internet users World Ranking: 171
65,000 (2009)
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Antigua And Barbuda (Saint John's):
 
GPS points from Antigua And Barbuda (Saint John's)
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The Siboney were the first people to inhabit the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 B.C., but Arawak Indians populated the islands when COLUMBUS landed on his second voyage in 1493. Early Spanish and French settlements were succeeded by an English colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became an independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations in 1981.