Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Communications

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is located Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago. The climate is tropical; little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season (May to November). The terrain is volcanic, mountainous.

Telephones


Telephones - main lines in use : 22,800 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 104,000 (2007)

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 : islandwide, fully automatic telephone system; VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to the other islands of the Grenadines; mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 100 telephones per 100 persons
Telephone system - international : country code - 1-784; the East Caribbean Fiber Optic System (ECFS) and Southern Caribbean fiber optic system (SCF) submarine cables carry international calls; connectivity also provided by VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to Barbados; SHF radiotelephone to Grenada and Saint Lucia; access to Intelsat earth station in Martinique through Saint Lucia

Radio broadcast stations

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 1, FM 6, shortwave 0 (2004)

Radios


Radios : 77,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations


Television broadcast stations : 1 (plus 3 repeaters) (2004)

Televisions


Televisions : 18,000 (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 : .vc

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 : 124 (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 : 57,000 (2007)


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