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Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis (), officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, is an island country and microstate consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain ...

Telephone

Saint Kitts and Nevis is a member 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 calling ...

(NANP), whose assigned area code is

area code 869 Area code 869 is the local telephone area code of Saint Kitts and Nevis. The 869 area code was created during a split from the original (809) area code which began permissive dialing on 1 October 1996 and ended 31 March 1997. When in Saint Kitts ...

. When dialing from a telephone in Saint Kitts and Nevis, telephone users can dial the local seven digit number. When calling a telephone number in the United States, Canada or any other NANP member country from Saint Kitts and Nevis, the user would dial 1 + area code + phone number. When calling a telephone number inside Saint Kitts and Nevis from the United States, Canada or other countries participating in the NANP, the user would dial 1 + 869 + seven digit phone number.

Telephone A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...

s - main lines in use: 17,000 (1997) Telephones - mobile cellular: at least 30,000(2005) Telephone system: ''General assessment:'' good inter-island and international connections ''Domestic:'' inter-island links to Antigua and

Barbuda Barbuda (), is an island located in the eastern Caribbean forming part of the sovereign state of Antigua and Barbuda. It is located north of the island of Antigua and is part of the Leeward Islands of the West Indies. The island is a popula ...

and Saint Martin ( Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles) are handled by VHF/UHF/SHF radiotelephone ''International:'' International calls are carried by radiotelephone to Antigua and Barbuda and switched there to submarine cable or to Intelsat; or carried to Saint Martin (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles) by radiotelephone and switched to Intelsat.

Radio

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 ...

broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998) *

550 __NOTOC__ Year 550 ( DL) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 550 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...

ZIZ (Bird Rock) *

820 __NOTOC__ Year 820 ( DCCCXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Abbasid Caliphate *Abbasid caliph Al-Ma'mun appointed Isa ibn Yazid al-Juludi as Abbasid gove ...

* 860 VON - Voice of Nevis * 89.9 ZIZ (formerly 90.0) * 90.3 Sugar City Rock FM * 92.9 Gem Radio Network * 93.3 Gem Radio Network * 94.1 SKNBC Radio One * 95.9 ZIZ (formerly 96.0) (Nevis) * 96.1 ZIZ (formerly 96.0) (Basseterre) * 96.7 Big Wave Radio (Saint Kitts) * 96.9 ZIZ * 98.3 Vybz FM/Family FM * 98.9 Winn FM * 102.5 Kyss 102.5 FM - The Love Radio * 103.3 Goodwill Radio * 104.5 Goodwill Radio * 106.5 Freedom FM Radios: 28,000 (1997)

Television

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: 1 (

ZIZ-TV ZIZ Broadcasting Corporation commonly referred to as ZIZ, is the government-owned radio and (now cable-only) television service of Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis (), officially the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevi ...

, plus three repeaters) (1997) Televisions: 10,000 (1997)

Internet

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 ...

: .kn (Top-level domain) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 16 (2000)

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

users: 2,001 (2000) Average Internet Speed: 27.84

mbps In telecommunications, data-transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols ( baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system. Common data rate units are mult ...

download/10.74 mbps upload (2020)

References

External links

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Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority
(ECTEL)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
SubmarineCableMap.com

WorldData.info Telecommunications by country, Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts Saint Kitts, officially the Saint Christopher Island, is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean. Saint Kitts and the neighbouring island of Nevis cons ...

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