Telecommunications in Dominica comprises telephone, radio, television and internet services. The primary regulatory authority is the National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission which regulates all related industries to comply with The Telecommunications Act 8 of 2000.
Telephony
Calls from Dominica to the US, Canada, and other NANP Caribbean nations, are dialed as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Calls from Dominica to non-NANP countries are dialed as 011 + country code + phone number with local area code.
;Telephone system:
*Domestic: fully automatic network
*International:
microwave
Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from about one meter to one millimeter corresponding to frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz respectively. Different sources define different frequency ra ...
radio relay and
SHF radiotelephone links to
Martinique
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and
Guadeloupe;
VHF and
UHF radiotelephone links to
Saint Lucia
;Number formatting:
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Telephone code
A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints. Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, re ...
: 767
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Number Format: nxx-xxxx
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Country Code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The term ...
:
+1767
*
International Call Prefix
An international call prefix, international dial-out code or international direct dial code (IDD code) is a trunk prefix that indicates an international phone call. In the dialling sequence, the prefix precedes the country calling code (and, fur ...
: 011 (outside NANP)
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Mobile cellular service providers:
*
Digicel
Digicel is a Jamaican and Caribbean mobile phone network and home entertainment provider operating in 33 markets worldwide.
Digicel has operated in several countries, including Guyana, Fiji, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, Suriname, a ...
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LIME
Lime commonly refers to:
* Lime (fruit), a green citrus fruit
* Lime (material), inorganic materials containing calcium, usually calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide
* Lime (color), a color between yellow and green
Lime may also refer to:
Botany ...
Radio
;Radio
broadcast stations:
AM 0,
FM 15,
shortwave 0 (2007)
;Radios:
46,000 (1997)
Television
;Television broadcast stations:
0 (however, there are three cable television companies,
Dominica Broadcast, Marpin Telecoms and Digicel Play – a merger of Digicel and SAT Telecommunications Ltd.
)
;Televisions:
11,000 (2007)
Internet service providers
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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 privat ...
s (ISPs):
*Cable & Wireless Dominica Ltd (DSL)
*Digicel Play (Cable & FTTP)
*Marpin Telecoms (Cable)
;
Internet code: .dm
References
External links
*
Dominica E.C. Tel
Dominica SubmarineCableMap.com
Dominica
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Dominica
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