Telecommunications in Dominica

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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 in order to comply with The Telecommunications Act 8 of 2000.

Telephony[edit]

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

Digicel
LIME

Radio[edit]

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Radio broadcast stations

AM 0, FM 15, shortwave 0 (2007)

Radios

46,000 (1997)

Television[edit]

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Television broadcast stations

0 (however, there are three cable television companies, Dominica Broadcast, Marpin Telecoms^[2] and Digicel Play - a merger of Digicel and SAT Telecommunications Ltd.^[3]^[4])

Televisions

11,000 (2007)

Internet service providers[edit]

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Cable & Wireless Dominica Ltd (DSL)
Digicel Play (Cable & FTTP)
Marpin Telecoms (Cable)

Internet code: .dm

References[edit]

^ National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, retrieved 27th of May 2019
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 August 2006. Retrieved 20 August 2006.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "BUSINESS BYTE: SAT Telecommunications becomes Digicel Play". Dominica News Online.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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