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Telephones - main lines in use: 77,000 (1994) Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,400 (1993) Telephone system: domestic: totally automatic system; highly developed international: tropospheric scatter and submarine cable to Florida; 3 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Area code: 242 Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 215,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997) Televisions: 67,000 (1997) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 3 (1999) Coralwave (www.coralwave.com) cable, direct fibre Batelnet (www.batelnet.bs) dial up, DSL Speedway Internet (www.xspbahamas.com) dial up, DSL, wireless DSL Bahamas (www.dslbahamas.com) DSL BGC (www.bgcfreedom.com) wireless Out Island Internet (www.abacoinet.com) dial up, DSL, wireless Country code: BS Reference Much of the material in this article comes from the CIA World Factbook 2000. See also Bahamas Categories: Bahamas | Communications by country

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	Bahamas - encyclopedia article about Bahamas. (2475 words) An archipelago of 700 islands and cays (which are small islands), the Bahamas is located in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Florida in the United States, north of Cuba and the Caribbean, and west of the British dependency of the Turks and Caicos Islands. She is represented in the Bahamas by a Governor-General of the Bahamas, appointed by the monarch herself. The climate of the Bahamas is subtropical to tropical, and is moderated significantly by the waters of the Gulf Stream, particularly in winter. Bahamas - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Bahamas (1436 words) The Bahamas are governed under the constitution of 1973 and have a parliamentary form of government. Before the arrival of Europeans, the Bahamas were inhabited by the Lucayos, a group of Arawaks. The Bahamas were granted limited self-government as a British crown colony in 1964, broadened (1969) through the efforts of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling Pindling, Sir Lynden Oscar, 1930–2000, prime minister of the Bahamas (1967–92).
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