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Telecommunications in Saint Lucia

Telecommunications in Saint Lucia include internet, radio, television, and mobile and landline phones.

Internet

Saint Lucia's country code top-level domain is .lc. Prior to the 21st century internet was available only by satellite. As of 2000, there were 5 Internet service providers serving the country. 90% of the city population has an internet connection but rural villages are only rarely connected. An average internet contract costs $42.99 per month.[citation needed] [clarification needed]

Telephone

As of 2008, approximately 90,000 landlines and 100,000 mobile cellular lines were in use.

Also as of 2008, the telephone system consisted of two parts:

Saint Lucia is part of the North American Numbering Plan with area code 758. although the original area code 809 numbers may still be used.[citation needed] Under the 809 area code, in 2020 there were a total of 241,000 phone connections with 203,000 of them being mobile connections.[1]

Radio

Radio broadcasts in St. Lucia were initially provided by the Windward Islands Broadcasting Service (WIBS) during 1954–1972.[2] The locally established Radio Caribbean International has served the island since 1961,[2] while the government-owned[2] Radio St. Lucia broadcast from 1972 until 2017.[3][4]

  • Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 7 (plus 3 repeaters), shortwave 0 (1998), includes VQH-AM 660
  • Radios: 111,000 (1997)

Television

Launched in 1966, the privately owned Saint Lucia Television Station (SLTV) was the first service of its kind in the country; it relayed programming from the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) of Barbados. In 1981, it was succeeded by the Helen Television Service (HTS), whose schedule consisted of American content sourced from satellite.[2]

  • 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)

References

  1. ^ "Telecommunication in Saint Lucia". Worlddata.info. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d Surlin, Stuart H.; Soderlund, Walter C., eds. (1990). "St. Lucia". Mass Media and the Caribbean. Gordon and Breach. pp. 100–101. ISBN 2-88124-447-5. Retrieved 16 October 2023 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Aimable, Anselma (9 May 2017). "Did you know?". St. Lucia News Online. Archived from the original on 12 May 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Fedee addresses issues surrounding closure of Radio Saint Lucia". St. Lucia News Online. 2 August 2017. Archived from the original on 17 November 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_Saint_Lucia