Telecommunications in Dominica
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:CIA Telecommunications in Dominica comprises telephone, radio, television and internet services. The primary regulatory authority is the National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission[1] which regulates all related industries to comply with The Telecommunications Act 8 of 2000.
Telephony
Calls from Dominica to the US, Canada, and other NANP Caribbean nations, are dialed as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Calls from Dominica to non-NANP countries are dialed as 011 + country code + phone number with local area code.
- Telephone system
- Domestic: fully automatic network
- International: microwave radio relay and SHF radiotelephone links to Martinique and Guadeloupe; VHF and UHF radiotelephone links to Saint Lucia
- Number formatting
- Telephone code: 767
- Number Format: nxx-xxxx
- Country Code: +1767
- International Call Prefix: 011 (outside NANP)
- Mobile cellular service providers
Internet
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
- Cable & Wireless Dominica Ltd (DSL)
- Digicel Play (Cable & FTTP)
- Marpin Telecoms (Cable)
- Internet code
- .dm
Radio
Dominica's radio stations include the government-owned DBS Radio, as well as privately owned competitors Kairi FM and Q95; a religious service called Voice of Life also operates there.[2] DBS was founded in 1971 as Radio Dominica (supplanting material provided by Grenada's Windward Islands Broadcasting Service, WIBS),[3] while Voice of Life was established in 1974 by two North American missionaries and began transmissions in 1976.[2] In 1997, the island had 46,000 radio receivers.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Update needed
Television
During the 1970s, relay services from Barbados' Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) represented the earliest attempts to bring television to Dominica; these were also provided to Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.[4] The experiment ceased after Hurricane David devastated the country in 1979; at the time, transmission was served from the Morne Bruce locality.[5]
In lieu of a national television broadcast service,[2][5] Dominica received cable service through the Marpin company in 1983.[6] By 2017, it was acquired by the local division of Flow, whose name it was rebranded under.[7] As of the early 2020s, Flow mainly carried North American and British programming, and broadcast a weekday-morning programme entitled Good Morning Dominica.[2] The country's other cable system, the later SAT Telecommunications, was similarly renamed Digicel Play in October 2014.[8]Template:Better source needed[9]
Dominica had 11,000 television sets in 2007.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Update needed
References
External links
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- Dominica, E.C. Tel
- Dominica, SubmarineCableMap.com
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