Communications in Saint Helena - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Below is a summary of media communications in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British overseas territory and overseas territory of the European Union consisting of the islands of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and the Tristan da Cunha group...

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Telecommunications

Cable and Wireless provide the telecommunications service in the territory. Saint Helena has the international calling code +290 which, since 2006, Tristan da Cunha shares. Telephone numbers are 4 digits long. Numbers start with 1-9, with 8xxx being reserved for Tristan da Cunha numbers and 2xxx for Jamestown. Ascension Island has the calling code +247 and also has 4 digit numbers on the island.

General statistics

Telephones - main lines in use:
2,900 (2009)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
0 (2009)

Telephone system:

domestic:
automatic network; HF radiotelephone from Saint Helena

Saint Helena

Saint Helena , named after St Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Ascension Island and the islands of Tristan da Cunha...

to Ascension, then into worldwide submarine cable and satellite networks

international:
HF radiotelephone from Saint Helena to Ascension, which is a major coaxial submarine cable relay point between South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

, and UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

; satellite earth stations - 5 (4 on Ascension Island; 1 on St Helena)

Radio broadcast stations:
(Local stations for Saint Helena
Saint Helena
Saint Helena , named after St Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Ascension Island and the islands of Tristan da Cunha...

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Band	Number of stations	List of stations
VHF	1	Saint FM Saint FM Saint FM is a radio station serving the island of Saint Helena. The station's studios and administration offices are located at Association Hall, Main Street, Jamestown...
MF	1	Radio Saint Helena Radio Saint Helena Radio Saint Helena provides a local radio service in Saint Helena island that has a range of about 100 km from the island on AM 1548 ....
HF	0	(Radio St Helena makes occasional shortwave broadcasts)
LF	0
Internet Streaming	1	Saint FM Saint FM Saint FM is a radio station serving the island of Saint Helena. The station's studios and administration offices are located at Association Hall, Main Street, Jamestown...

Radios:
3,000 (1997)

Radio stations:
6 (2007) (2 on St Helena; 1 on Ascension; 3 (ZOE-FM 93.5 and its shortwave relay on 3290 KHz) on Tristan da Cunha

Tristan da Cunha

Tristan da Cunha is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying from the nearest land, South Africa, and from South America...

; and 1 BFBS

Television broadcast stations:
0 (2007)

Televisions:
2,000 (1997)

Internet users:
900 (2009)

Internet hosts:
6,873 (2010)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)

Meteorological stations:
South Africa maintains a manned meteorological station on Gough Island

Gough Island

Gough Island , also known historically as Gonçalo Álvares or Diego Alvarez, is a volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a dependency of Tristan da Cunha and part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha...

; on Saint Helena island, there is an automatic weather station at Longwood

Longwood, Saint Helena

Longwood is a settlement and a district of the British island of Saint Helena, where Napoleon was exiled from 1815 until his death on 5 May 1821. France owns the land around Napoleon's original grave, but the United Kingdom retains full sovereignty....

and another station at Broad Bottom

Blue Hill, Saint Helena

Blue Hill is a hill and one of eight districts of the island of Saint Helena, a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean, located in the west and southwest of the island. Its main settlement, with the location of the community centre, is Blue Hill Village...

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Country code (Top level domain): .sh

.sh

.sh is the Internet country code top-level domain for Saint Helena. Registrations of internationalized domain names are also accepted.-Second level domains:There are seven Second Level Domains:* co.sh: Commercial Entities...

and .ac

.ac

.ac is the Internet country code top-level domain for Ascension Island. It is administered by NIC.AC, a subsidiary of the Internet Computer Bureau based in the United Kingdom.Registration for this domain is open to anyone...

(Ascension Island

Ascension Island

Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island in the equatorial waters of the South Atlantic Ocean, around from the coast of Africa and from the coast of South America, which is roughly midway between the horn of South America and Africa...

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Telecommunications

General statistics

See also