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Telecommunications in Dominica comprises telephone, radio, television and internet services. The primary regulatory authority is the National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission [1] which regulates all related industries to comply with The Telecommunications Act 8 of 2000.
Calls from Dominica to the US, Canada, and other NANP Caribbean nations, are dialed as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Calls from Dominica to non-NANP countries are dialed as 011 + country code + phone number with local area code.
Dominica's radio stations include the government-owned DBS Radio, as well as privately owned competitors Kairi FM and Q95; a religious service called Voice of Life also operates there. [2] DBS was founded in 1971 as Radio Dominica (supplanting material provided by Grenada's Windward Islands Broadcasting Service, WIBS), [3] while Voice of Life was established in 1974 by two North American missionaries and began transmissions in 1976. [2] In 1997, the island had 46,000 radio receivers.[ citation needed ][ needs update ]
During the 1970s, relay services from Barbados' Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) represented the earliest attempts to bring television to Dominica; these were also provided to Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. [4] The experiment ceased after Hurricane David devastated the country in 1979; at the time, transmission was served from the Morne Bruce locality. [5]
In lieu of a national television broadcast service, [2] [5] Dominica received cable service through the Marpin company in 1983. [6] By 2017, it was acquired by the local division of Flow, whose name it was rebranded under. [7] As of the early 2020s, Flow mainly carried North American and British programming, and broadcast a weekday-morning programme entitled Good Morning Dominica. [2] The country's other cable system, the later SAT Telecommunications, was similarly renamed Digicel Play in October 2014. [8] [ better source needed ] [9]
Dominica had 11,000 television sets in 2007.[ citation needed ][ needs update ]
Telecommunications in Antigua and Barbuda are via media in the telecommunications industry.
This article is about communications systems in Anguilla.
Country Code: +1284
International Call Prefix: 011
Communications in the Cayman Islands
Telecommunications in Haiti Internet, radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones.
Telecommunications in Jamaica include the fixed and mobile telephone networks, radio, television, and the Internet.
Nauru has one government-owned radio station and two television stations, one of which is government owned. The island has telephone service under country code 674. The island's Internet service is provided by CenPacNet and Digicel Nauru. The country's ccTLD is .nr.
Telecommunications in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is accomplished through the transmission of information by various types of technologies within Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, mainly telephones, radio, television, and the Internet.
Telecommunications in Tonga include radio, television, telephones, and the Internet.
Telecommunications in Trinidad and Tobago include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
In Venezuela the first law on telecommunications was approved in 1940. It identified the responsibility of the state in regard to telephone and other telecommunication systems, including radio and television services.
Communications in Barbados refers to the telephony, internet, postal, radio, and television systems of Barbados. Barbados has long been an informational and communications centre in the Caribbean region. Electricity coverage throughout Barbados is good and reliable. Usage is high and provided by a service monopoly, Barbados Light & Power Company Ltd..
Bermuda has three main television stations, a small cable microwave system, three public GSM services, multiple submarine cables, and two main Internet service providers.
This is a list of Communications in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Area code 246 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Barbados. The sequence 246 spells BIM on an alpha-numeric telephone keypad, a nickname for the island.
Area codes 876 and 658 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Jamaica.
Communications in Grenada
Telecommunications in Guyana include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet. Early telecommunications were owned by large foreign firms until the industry was nationalized in the 1970s. Government stifled criticism with a tight control of the media, and the infrastructure lagged behind other countries, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) holding a monopoly on most such services. In a 2012 census report on Guyanese households, 55.5% had a radio, 82.7% had a television, 27.8% had a personal computer, and 16.2% had internet at home, 49.3% had a telephone landline, and 70.6% had a cellular phone.
LIME, an acronym for 'Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment', was a communications provider owned by the British based Cable & Wireless Communications for its operations in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines and Turks & Caicos in the Caribbean.
Favaro, Edgardo; Winter, Bryan (2008). "Telecommunications Regulation in the Eastern Caribbean: The Spark for Change: The Formation of ECTEL". In Favaro, Edgardo (ed.). Small States, Smart Solutions: Improving Connectivity and Increasing the Effectiveness of Public Services. World Bank Publications. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8213-7461-0 . Retrieved 4 October 2024– via Google Books.  | This article related to telecommunications is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
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