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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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

• Digicel
• FLOW

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.<ref name=morse>Template:Cite book</ref> DBS was founded in 1971 as Radio Dominica (supplanting material provided by Grenada's Windward Islands Broadcasting Service, WIBS),<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> while Voice of Life was established in 1974 by two North American missionaries and began transmissions in 1976.<ref name=morse/> In 1997, the island had 46,000 radio receivers.Template:Citation neededTemplate: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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The experiment ceased after Hurricane David devastated the country in 1979; at the time, transmission was served from the Morne Bruce locality.<ref name=hewlett>Template:Cite book</ref>

In lieu of a national television broadcast service,<ref name=morse/><ref name=hewlett/> Dominica received cable service through the Marpin company in 1983.<ref>Template:Free access Template:Cite book</ref> By 2017, it was acquired by the local division of Flow, whose name it was rebranded under.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> As of the early 2020s, Flow mainly carried North American and British programming, and broadcast a weekday-morning programme entitled Good Morning Dominica.<ref name=morse/> The country's other cable system, the later SAT Telecommunications, was similarly renamed Digicel Play in October 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source needed<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Dominica had 11,000 television sets in 2007.Template:Citation neededTemplate:Update needed

External links

• Template:Official website
• Dominica, E.C. Tel
• Dominica, SubmarineCableMap.com

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