Telecommunications in Saint Kitts and Nevis

Telecommunications in Saint Kitts and Nevis

This is a list of Communications in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

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Telephone

Saint Kitts and Nevis is a member of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), whose assienged area code is area code 869.

When dialing from a telephone in Saint Kitts and Nevis, telephone users can dial the local seven digit number. When calling a telephone number in the United States, Canada or any other NANP member country from Saint kitts and Nevis, the user would dial 1 + area code + phone number.

When calling a telephone number inside Saint Kitts and Nevis from the United States, Canada or other countries participating in the NANP, the user would dial 1 + 869 + seven digit phone number.

Telephones - main lines in use: 17,000 (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular: at least 30,000(2005)

Telephone system:

General assessment: good inter-island and international connections

Domestic: inter-island links to Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Martin (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles) are handled by VHF/UHF/SHF radiotelephone

International: International calls are carried by radiotelephone to Antigua and Barbuda and switched there to submarine cable or to Intelsat; or carried to Saint Martin (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles) by radiotelephone and switched to Intelsat.

Radio

Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

  • ZIZ-AM 550 (Bird Rock)
  • ZIZ-FM 90.0 (Nevis)
  • ZIZ-FM 96.0 (Basseterre)

Radios: 28,000 (1997)

Television

Television broadcast stations: 1 (ZIZ-TV, plus three repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 10,000 (1997)

Internet

Country code: .kn (Top-level domain)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 16 (2000)

Internet users: 2,001 (2000)