Communications in the
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territory—the largest by population in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the ...
Telephone
Telephones – main lines in use: 37,400 (2009)
Telephones – mobile cellular: 99,900 (2004)
Telephone system:
:''Domestic:'' Reasonably good overall telephone system with a high fixed-line teledensity. Liberalization of telecom market in 2003; introduction of competition in the mobile-cellular market in 2004. FLOW Cayman
Digicel: ''International:'' The Cayman Islands have landing points for the
MAYA-1
Maya-1 was a Filipino nanosatellite. It was developed under the Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Microsatellite program (PHL-Microsat) and was jointly implemented by the University of the Philippines and the Department of Science and ...
, and the Cayman-Jamaica Fiber System submarine cables that provide links to the US and parts of Central and South America. Service on both of these cables are controlled b
Liberty Latin America.
Satellite earth station – 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 0,
FM 17, shortwave 0 (2006)
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List of radio stations in Cayman Islands
There are presently 16 licensed radio stations in the Cayman Islands authorized by the Information and Communication Technology Authority, or ICTA.
Radio stations on Grand Cayman
*87.9 FM ZFKP-FM - Praise 87.9 - OWNER: C.I. Conference of Sev ...
Radios: 36,000 (1997)
Television
Television broadcast stations:''
Cayman27
Internet
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):Four companies offer internet service in the islands with in fixed configurations or mobile or both:
Liberty Latin America d/b/a FLOWDigicelLogic- Fibre based service. Founded in 2004 as WestTel when it was granted a telecommunications license. Purchased TeleCayman in 2013
C3
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 ...
(Top-level domain):
.ky
.ky is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Cayman Islands. The code was chosen as other possible options had already been allocated. Registration was limited to residents and registered companies in the Cayman Islands with ...
References
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Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territory—the largest by population in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the ...
Cayman