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. The internet is growing rapidly across the country however.

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 an area code is 758, although original 809 area code numbers may still be used. 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 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)


References
  1. "Telecommunication in Saint Lucia". Worlddata.info. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
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