Telecommunications in
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
include
internet,
radio,
television, and
mobile and
landline phones.
Internet
Saint Lucia's
country code top-level domain is
.lc
.lc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Saint Lucia, sponsored by the University of Puerto Rico and created on September 3, 1991. The registry is operated by Afilias and markets towards companies structured as LCs, LLCs ...
. Prior to the 21st century internet was available only by satellite. As of 2000, there were 5
Internet service providers serving the country. 90% of the city population has an internet connection but rural villages are only rarely connected. An average internet contract costs $42.99 per month.
Telephone
As of 2008, approximately 90,000 landlines and 100,000 mobile cellular lines were in use.
Also as of 2008, the telephone system consisted of two parts:
* ''Domestic:'' System is automatically switched.
* ''International:'' Submarine fibre optic link with
Martinique (France),
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and
Barbados.
Saint Lucia is part of the
North American Numbering Plan with an
area 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, rea ...
is
758
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Year 758 ( DCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 758 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar er ...
, although original
809 area code numbers may still be used. Under the 809 area code, in 2020 there were a total of 241,000 phone connections with 203,000 of them being mobile connections.
Radio
Radio broadcasts in St. Lucia were initially provided by the
Windward Islands Broadcasting Service (WIBS) during 1954–1972.
The locally established
Radio Caribbean International
Radio Caribbean International (RCI) is a radio station based in Castries, Saint Lucia.
History
One of the oldest radio services in the Eastern Caribbean, RCI was established in 1961 and was one of the country's two stations (along with Radio St ...
has served the island since 1961,
[ while the government-owned][ Radio St. Lucia broadcast from 1972 until 2017.]
Television
Launched in 1966, the privately owned Saint Lucia Television Station (SLTV) was the first service of its kind in the country; it relayed programming from the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) of Barbados. In 1981, it was succeeded by the Helen Television Service (HTS), whose schedule consisted of American content sourced from satellite.[
* Television broadcast stations: 3 (of which two are commercial stations and one is a community antenna television or CATV channel) (1997)
*Televisions: 100,000 (2005)
]
References
External links
*
Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority
(ECTEL)
Saint Lucia
SubmarineCableMap.com
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
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