This article is about
communications systems in the
Federated States of Micronesia.
In 2010,
Pohnpei State was connected to the Internet using the
HANTRU-1 HANTRU-1 is a submarine communications cable system that connects the Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein atoll to Guam. The cable was funded by $100 million from the US Army. Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia arranged to add extensi ...
undersea communications cable
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to provide high-speed bandwidth.
Kosrae State,
Chuuk State
Chuuk State (; also known as Truk) is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The other states are Kosrae State, Pohnpei State, and Yap State. It consists of several island groups:
* Namoneas
* Faichuuk
* Hall Isla ...
, and
Yap State, were planned to be connected in a second phase.
Telephone
Main lines in use:
8,000 (1995)
Mobile cellular:
NA
Telephone system:
''domestic:''
islands interconnected by shortwave radiotelephone (used mostly for government purposes)
''international:''
satellite earth stations - 4
Intelsat
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(
Pacific Ocean)
Radio
Broadcast
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began ...
stations:
AM 5, FM 1, shortwave 1 (2011)
Stations below are included in the total:
AM Radio stations:
* AM 999
V6AF - (Pohnpei)
* AM 1350
V6A - Baptist Radio - Moen (Chuuk) FM.. religious-Baptist
* AM 1449
V6AH - Radio V6AH -
Kolonia (Pohnpei) FM.. religious-Christian
* AM 1494
V6AI - Radio Yap -
Colonia, Yap
Colonia is an urban area belonging to the municipalities of Rull and Weloy which serves as the capital of the State of Yap, one of the Federated States of Micronesia. It administers both Yap proper and some 13 atolls and islands reaching to the eas ...
(Yap)
* AM 1503
V6AJ - Voice of Kosrae - Tofol (Kosrae) FM.. English, Kosraean
* AM 1593
V6AK - (Moen)
FM Radio stations:
* FM 88.1
V6BC (Truk)
* FM 88.1
V6AI-FM (Moen)
* FM 88.5
V6MA-FM
* FM 88.5
V6MA Bible Baptist Church Radio (Weno, Chuuk)
* FM 88.9
V6JY (Yap)
* FM 89.5
V6AK-FM Radio - Moen (Chuuk) FM English, Chuukese
* FM 89.7
V6AA (Yap)
* FM 101.1
V6AV (
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcasting, international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, British Government through the Foreign Secretary, Foreign Secretary's o ...
) (Yap)
* FM 104.1
V6AF-FM - Kolonia (Pohnpei) FM.. religious-Christian
There is also a shortwave relay of 88.5 FM,
V6MP.
Radios:
NA
Television
Broadcast stations:
*
KPON 7 Kolonia (
Pohnpei
Pohnpei "upon (''pohn'') a stone altar (''pei'')" (formerly known as Ponape or Ascension, Proto-Chuukic-Pohnpeic: ''*Fawo ni pei)'' is an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group. It belongs to Pohnpei ...
, 1 kW)
*
TTKK 7 Moen (
Truk, 0.1 kW)
*
WAAB 7 (Government station)
Colonia (
Yap, 1 kW) - (1997)
Several
Honolulu local stations are available on cable (converted from
ATSC
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to
DVB-T
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):
KHET
KHET (channel 11), branded as PBS Hawai'i, is a PBS member television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands. Owned by the Hawaii Public Television Foundation, the station maintains studios on Sand Island Access ...
(
PBS),
KHON-TV (
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
),
KITV-TV
KITV (channel 4) is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Allen Media Group alongside multicultural independent station KIKU (channel 20). The two station ...
(
ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
),
KHNL-TV
KHNL (channel 13) is a television station in Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KGMB (channel 5) and Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, Kailua ...
(
NBC) and
KGMB-TV
KGMB (channel 5) is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside NBC affiliate KHNL (channel 13) and Kailua-Kona–licensed Telemundo affi ...
(
CBS).
Televisions:
NA
Internet
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1
:
.fm
Notes
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