- Communications in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
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Below is a summary of media communications in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.
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Telecommunications
Cable and Wireless provide the telecommunications service in the territory. Saint Helena has the international calling code +290 which, since 2006, Tristan da Cunha shares. Telephone numbers are 4 digits long. Numbers start with 1-9, with 8xxx being reserved for Tristan da Cunha numbers and 2xxx for Jamestown.[1] Ascension Island has the calling code +247 and also has 4 digit numbers on the island.[2]
General statistics[3]
Telephones - main lines in use: 2,900 (2009)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 0 (2009)
Telephone system:
domestic: automatic network; HF radiotelephone from Saint Helena to Ascension, then into worldwide submarine cable and satellite networks
international: HF radiotelephone from Saint Helena to Ascension, which is a major coaxial submarine cable relay point between South Africa, Portugal, and UK; satellite earth stations - 5 (4 on Ascension Island; 1 on St Helena)Radio broadcast stations: (Local stations for Saint Helena island)
Band Number of stations List of stations VHF 1 Saint FM MF 1 Radio Saint Helena HF 0 (Radio St Helena makes occasional shortwave broadcasts) LF 0 Internet Streaming 1 Saint FM Radios: 3,000 (1997)
Radio stations: 6 (2007) (2 on St Helena; 1 on Ascension; 3 (ZOE-FM 93.5 and its shortwave relay on 3290 KHz) on Tristan da Cunha; and 1 BFBS
Television broadcast stations: 0 (2007)
Televisions: 2,000 (1997)
Internet users: 900 (2009)
Internet hosts: 6,873 (2010)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (2000)
Meteorological stations: South Africa maintains a manned meteorological station on Gough Island; on Saint Helena island, there is an automatic weather station at Longwood and another station at Broad Bottom.
Country code (Top level domain): .sh and .ac (Ascension Island)
See also
- Transport on Saint Helena
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha#Communications
- Category:Radio stations in Saint Helena
References
- ^ World Telephone Numbering Guide Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha
- ^ World Telephone Numbering Guide Ascension Island
- ^ CIA World Factbook St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Categories:- Communications in the United Kingdom
- Economy of Saint Helena
- Saint Helenian society
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Tristan da Cunha
- Ascension Island
- Saint Helena stubs
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