Saint Lucia - Communications

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Saint Lucia is located Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago. The climate is tropical, moderated by northeast trade winds; dry season January to April, rainy season May to August. The terrain is volcanic and mountainous with some broad, fertile valleys.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 51,100 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 105,700 (2005)

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 : adequate system
Telephone system - domestic : system is automatically switched
Telephone system - international : country code - 1-758; the East Caribbean Fiber Optic System (ECFS) and Southern Caribbean fiber optic system (SCF) submarine cables, along with Intelsat from Martinique, carry calls internationally; direct microwave radio relay link with Martinique and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; tropospheric scatter to Barbados

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 2, FM 7, shortwave 0 (2003)

Radios

Radios : 111,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 2 (1 commercial broadcast station and 1 community antenna television or CATV channel) (2003)

Televisions

Televisions : 32,000 (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 : .lc

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 : 17 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 15 (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 : 110,000 (2007)

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