Telecommunications in Saint Lucia

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Telecommunications in Saint Lucia include internet, radio, television, and mobile and landline phones.

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Internet

Saint Lucia's country code top-level domain is .lc. 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.[ citation needed ]

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:

Saint Lucia is part of the North American Numbering Plan with an area code is 758 , 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. [1]

Radio

Radio broadcasts in St. Lucia were initially provided by the Windward Islands Broadcasting Service (WIBS) during 1954–1972. [2] The locally established Radio Caribbean International has served the island since 1961, [2] while the government-owned [2] Radio St. Lucia broadcast from 1972 until 2017. [3] [4]

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. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Telecommunication in Saint Lucia". Worlddata.info. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Surlin, Stuart H.; Soderlund, Walter C., eds. (1990). "St. Lucia" . Mass Media and the Caribbean. Gordon and Breach. pp. 100–101. ISBN   2-88124-447-5 . Retrieved 16 October 2023– via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Aimable, Anselma (9 May 2017). "Did you know?". St. Lucia News Online. Archived from the original on 12 May 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  4. ↑ "Fedee addresses issues surrounding closure of Radio Saint Lucia". St. Lucia News Online. 2 August 2017. Archived from the original on 17 November 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
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