Telecommunications in

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...

include internet,

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television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

, and

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and

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phones.

Internet

Saint Lucia's

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.lc .lc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Lucia, sponsored by the University of Puerto Rico and created on September 3, 1991. The registry is operated by Afilias and markets towards companies structured as LCs, LLCs ...

. Prior to the 21st century internet was available only by satellite. As of 2000, there were 5

Internet service provider An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise private ...

s serving the country. 90% of the city population has an internet connection but rural villages are only rarely connected. An average internet contract costs $42.99 per month.

Telephone

As of 2008, approximately 90,000 landlines and 100,000 mobile cellular lines were in use. Also as of 2008, the telephone system consisted of two parts: * ''Domestic:'' System is automatically switched. * ''International:'' Submarine fibre optic link with

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(France),

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines () is an island country in the Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea wh ...

and

Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). ...

. Saint Lucia is part of the

North American Numbering Plan The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Zone 1 and has the international callin ...

with an

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is 758, although original

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area code numbers may still be used. Under the 809 area code, in 2020 there were a total of 241,000 phone connections with 203,000 of them being mobile connections.

Radio

Radio broadcasts in St. Lucia were initially provided by the

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(WIBS) during 1954–1972. The locally established

Radio Caribbean International Radio Caribbean International (RCI) is a radio station based in Castries, Saint Lucia. History One of the oldest radio services in the Eastern Caribbean, RCI was established in 1961 and was one of the country's two stations (along with Radio St ...

has served the island since 1961, while the government-owned Radio St. Lucia broadcast from 1972 until 2017. *

Radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...

broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 7 (plus 3 repeaters), shortwave 0 (1998), includes VQH-AM 660 *Radios: 111,000 (1997)

Television

Launched in 1966, the privately owned Saint Lucia Television Station (SLTV) was the first service of its kind in the country; it relayed programming from the

Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation The Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is a public radio and television broadcaster, located in The Pine, St. Michael in Barbados. It was founded in 1963 as Radio Barbados. The CBC falls under the ministry and jurisdiction of the Prim ...

(CBC) of Barbados. In 1981, it was succeeded by the Helen Television Service (HTS), whose schedule consisted of American content sourced from satellite. *

Television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

broadcast stations: 3 (of which two are commercial stations and one is a community antenna television or CATV channel) (1997) *Televisions: 100,000 (2005)

References

External links

*
Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority
(ECTEL)
Saint Lucia
SubmarineCableMap.com

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