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Friday, February 27, 2015

Communications in Saint Lucia

Telephone



Telephones - main lines in use: 90,000

Telephones - mobile cellular: 100,000

Telephone system:

  • Domestic: System is automatically switched.
  • International: Direct microwave radio relay link with Martinique and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; tropospheric scatter to Barbados; international calls beyond these countries are carried by Intelsat from Martinique.

Saint Lucia is part of the North American Numbering Plan; its area code is 758.

Radio



Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 7 (plus 3 repeaters), shortwave 0 (1998), includes VQH-AM 660

Radios: 111,000 (1997)

Television



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)

Internet



Saint Lucia's country code top-level domain is .lc. As of 2000, there were 15 Internet service providers serving the country. 99.9% of the population has internet






 
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