Telecommunications in Dominica

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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.

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Telephony

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.

Telephone system
Number formatting
Mobile cellular service providers

Internet

Internet service providers (ISPs)
Internet code
.dm

Radio

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 ]

Television

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 ]

References

  1. ↑ "National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, retrieved 27 May 2019".
  2. 1 2 3 4 Morse, Kimberly J., ed. (2022). "Dominica: Media" . The Americas: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. ABC-CLIO. p. 354. ISBN   978-1-440-85239-8 . Retrieved 4 October 2024– via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Honychurch, Lennox (1995). "Development and Welfare: General Services". The Dominica Story (2nd ed.). Macmillan Education. p. 194. ISBN   0-333-62776-8.
  4. ↑ Lent, John A. (1977). "The Awakening (1938-44) and After: Radio, Television, Film". Third World Mass Media and Their Search for Modernity: The Case of Commonwealth Caribbean, 1717-1976 . Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. p. 82. ISBN   0-8387-1896-5 . Retrieved 4 October 2024– via Google Books.
  5. 1 2 Quinlan, Marsha B.; Hansen, Jenna R. (2013). "Introduction of Television and Dominica Youth: Modernization and Media in Bwa Mawego". In Hewlett, Bonnie Lynn (ed.). Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives . Routledge. p. 250. ISBN   978-0-415-89012-0 . Retrieved 4 October 2024– via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Lock-green.svg 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.
  7. ↑ Staff (12 May 2017). "Cable & Wireless acquires Marpin 2K4 Ltd". Dominica News Online (DNO). Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  8. ↑ "BUSINESS BYTE: SAT Telecommunications becomes Digicel Play". Dominica News Online (DNO).
  9. ↑ "SAT Telecommunications Ltd - Home". Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2012.


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