Telecommunications in Haiti Internet, radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones.

Internet Access

There are 4

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s serving the country – NATCOM, Access Haiti, Hainet., and Digicel Haiti. The Haitian telecommunications authority, CONATEL, decided in October 2010 to allow the introduction of 3G services by the mobile telephone service providers. This will enable them to deploy faster mobile internet access speeds throughout their networks than what is currently available with GPRS/

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. NATCOM is the leading internet company in Haiti with a wide range of internet connectivity solutions. From 4G LTE, Fiber to the home and to the business, Wireless point to point and point to multi point solutions. NATCOM offers guaranteed SLA's thanks to its robust local network and exclusive 4 international links to the global undersea fiber networks.

Pricing

As of September 2017, Taxes are included. Fiber Optic Consumer Pricing Pricing per month by download speed and provider Local Taxes are not Included in the prices Above

Internet censorship and surveillance

There are no government restrictions on access to the Internet or credible reports that the government monitors

e-mail Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Email was thus conceived as the electronic (digital) version of, or counterpart to, mail, at a time when "mail" meant ...

or Internet

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without judicial oversight."Haiti"
''Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012'', Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 22 March 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2013. The law provides for freedom of speech and

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, and the government and elected officials generally respect these rights in practice. The independent media are active and express a wide variety of views without restriction. However, there have been incidents of local officials harassing or threatening journalists and others who criticized the government. Journalists complain about defamation lawsuits that the government threatens or files against the press for statements made about public officials or private figures in the public arena. Defamation carries both criminal and civil penalties. Some journalists practice self-censorship on stories related to drug trafficking or allegations of business and political corruption, likely due to past patterns of retribution against activists and journalists engaged in investigative reporting. The law prohibits arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence, but the government does not always respect these prohibitions in practice.

Radio and television

Radio stations Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio sta ...

: Government-owned radio network; more than 250 private and community radio stations with about 50 FM stations in Port-au-Prince alone (2007). *

Television stations A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the ear ...

: Several TV stations, including one government-owned; cable TV subscription service is available (2007). *

Television set A television set or television receiver, more commonly called the television, TV, TV set, telly, tele, or tube, is a device that combines a tuner, display, and loudspeakers, for the purpose of viewing and hearing television broadcasts, or using ...

s: 38,120 (1997). * Radio and TV stations in Haiti in 2010: : Tele Haiti is a television broadcasting network providing paid television services with over 140 local and international channels on its network TeleHaiti.

Telephones

* Calling code: +509 *

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: 00 ;Land lines In 2012, there were 50,000 main lines in use ranking Haiti 163rd in the world."Communications: Haiti"
''World Factbook'', U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 7 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014. Natcom, the result of the

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of Télécommunications d'Haiti S.A.M. (Teleco) in 2010, has a monopoly on the provision of landline services throughout the country. The Vietnamese company

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bought a 60% share, with the Haitian government keeping the remaining 40% of the company.Le Nouvelliste
"Et la Téléco devient Natcom"
. Teleco was constantly hobbled by political interference which affected its performance. A net generator of revenues for the government in the 1970s and early 1980s, Teleco's fortunes then began to decline. ;Mobile cellular: Despite wide-ranging poverty, Haiti increased its

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coverage rate from 6% to 30% in one year (May 2006 to May 2007). Haiti is now the driving force in mobile phone growth in the Caribbean, while

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 transmi ...

remains the primary information medium for most Haitians. * 6.1 million mobile lines (102nd in the world) covering 61.6% of the population (2012). * There were two major cell phone providers: Comcel/Voila, Haitel until 2006 when

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 ...

, a Denis O'Brien company, begun servicing the Haitian network. Later, Natcom purchased 60% of Teleco (the main landline company in Haiti for about 4 decades) in 2011, then it became a direct competitor to Digicel. ** Comcel, a subsidiary of Trilogy International Partners, LLC, was a TDMA company which launched its service in September 1999. ** Digicel Haiti, an affiliate of the pan-Caribbean Digicel Group won Haiti's first

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such ...

license in June 2005 and launched service in early 2006. ** Haitel, an independent company founded by Franck Ciné, a Haitian-American and former

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executive, adopted

CDMA Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. CDMA is an example of multiple access, where several transmitters can send information simultaneously over a single communicatio ...

technology. In May 2006, Comcel and Haitel had a total of about 500,000 subscribers - a cell phone coverage rate of 6% for a population of 8.2 million. Digicel entered the market in May 2006. After one year of operations, May 2006-May 2007, Digicel went from zero to 1.4 million subscribers. The other two cell phone providers, Comcel and Haitel, responded by cutting their prices and offering new services such as Voilà, a

service by Comcel, and

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by Haitel. As a result, Comcel and Haitel increased their subscribers from 500,000 to 1 million. As of April 2012, Digicel has about 3.5 million cell phone subscribers in Haiti. In May 2007, Digicel started offering two

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services with

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, one for enterprises and one for individuals. On March 30, 2012, Digicel completed the acquisition of Comcel / Voila, its main competitor in the Haitian market. ;System * Haiti's telecommunications infrastructure is among the least developed in

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and the Caribbean (2010). * Domestic facilities are barely adequate. ** Mobile-cellular telephone services are expanding rapidly due, in part, to the introduction of low-cost

phones (2010). ** Mobile-cellular teledensity exceeds 40 per 100 persons (2010). ** Coaxial cable and

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relay trunk service. * International facilities are slightly better. ** Satellite earth stations: 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2010).

Internet

* Haiti's

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is .ht and is managed by NIC.ht Consortium FDS/RDDH. As of March 2009, it had 1155 domain names registered. *

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: 1.3 million, 165th in the world; 12.2% of the population, 168th in the world (2015).Calculated using penetration rate and population data fro
"Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012"
, Population data, International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 26 June 2013"Percentage of Individuals using the Internet 2000-2012"
International Telecommunication Union (Geneva), June 2013, retrieved 22 June 2013 * Fixed broadband: unknown (2012)."Fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 2012"
, Dynamic Report, ITU ITC EYE,

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. Retrieved on 29 June 2013. * Mobile broadband: 15,781 subscriptions, 137th in the world; 0.2% of the population, 144th in the world (2012)."Active mobile-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 2012"
, Dynamic Report, ITU ITC EYE,

. Retrieved on 29 June 2013. * Internet hosts: 555 hosts, 181st in the world (2012). * IPv4: 124,160 addresses allocated, less than 0.05% of the world's total, 13 per 1000 people.Population
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. Accessed on 2 April 2012. Note: Data are mostly for 1 July 2012.

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