Saint Helena - Communications

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Saint Helena is located islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, about midway between South America and Africa; Ascension Island lies 700 nm northwest of Saint Helena; Tristan da Cunha lies 2300 nm southwest of Saint Helena. The climate is . The terrain is .

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 2,200 (2002)

Telephone system

This entry includes a brief general assessment of the system with details on the domestic and international components. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry
Telephone system - general assessment : can communicate worldwide
Telephone system - domestic : automatic digital network
Telephone system - international : country code (Saint Helena) - 290, (Ascension Island) - 247; international direct dialing; satellite voice and data communications; satellite earth stations - 5 (Ascension Island - 4, Saint Helena - 1)

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations - Saint Helena : AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0
Radio broadcast stations - Ascension : AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 1 (2005)

Radios

Radios : 3,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 0 (3 television channels are received via satellite and distributed by UHF) (2005)

Televisions

Televisions : 2,000 (1997)

Internet country code

This entry includes the two-letter codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).
Internet country code : .sh; note - Ascension Island assigned .ac

Internet hosts

This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity.
Internet hosts : 306 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 1 (2000)

Internet users

This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months.
Internet users : 1,000; note - includes Ascension Island (2003)

Communications - note

This entry includes miscellaneous communications information of significance not included elsewhere.
Communications - note : South Africa maintains a meteorological station on Gough Island

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