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 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
Internet
[edit]- Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
- Cable & Wireless Dominica Ltd (DSL)
- Digicel Play (Cable & FTTP)
- Marpin Telecoms (Cable)
- Internet code
- .dm
Radio
[edit]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.[citation needed][needs update]
Television
[edit]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][better source needed][9]
Dominica had 11,000 television sets in 2007.[citation needed][needs update]
References
[edit]- ^ "National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, retrieved 27 May 2019".
- ^ a b c d Morse, Kimberly J., ed. (2022). "Dominica: Media". The Americas: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. ABC-CLIO. p. 354. ISBN 978-1-440-85239-8. Retrieved 4 October 2024 – via Google Books.
- ^ Honychurch, Lennox (1995). "Development and Welfare: General Services". The Dominica Story (2nd ed.). Macmillan Education. p. 194. ISBN 0-333-62776-8.
- ^ Lent, John A. (1977). "The Awakening (1938-44) and After: Radio, Television, Film". Third World Mass Media and Their Search for Modernity: The Case of Commonwealth Caribbean, 1717-1976. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. p. 82. ISBN 0-8387-1896-5. Retrieved 4 October 2024 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Quinlan, Marsha B.; Hansen, Jenna R. (2013). "Introduction of Television and Dominica Youth: Modernization and Media in Bwa Mawego". In Hewlett, Bonnie Lynn (ed.). Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives. Routledge. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-415-89012-0. Retrieved 4 October 2024 – via Google Books.
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Favaro, Edgardo; Winter, Bryan (2008). "Telecommunications Regulation in the Eastern Caribbean: The Spark for Change: The Formation of ECTEL". In Favaro, Edgardo (ed.). Small States, Smart Solutions: Improving Connectivity and Increasing the Effectiveness of Public Services. World Bank Publications. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8213-7461-0. Retrieved 4 October 2024 – via Google Books.
- ^ Staff (12 May 2017). "Cable & Wireless acquires Marpin 2K4 Ltd". Dominica News Online (DNO). Retrieved 4 October 2024.
- ^ "BUSINESS BYTE: SAT Telecommunications becomes Digicel Play". Dominica News Online (DNO).
- ^ "SAT Telecommunications Ltd - Home". Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Dominica, E.C. Tel
- Dominica, SubmarineCableMap.com
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