Telecommunications in Dominica

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

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
Number formatting
Mobile cellular service providers

Radio
Radio broadcast stations

AM 0, FM 15, shortwave 0 (2007)

Radios

46,000 (1997)

Television
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
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
  • Cable & Wireless Dominica Ltd (DSL)
  • Digicel Play (Cable & FTTP)
  • Marpin Telecoms (Cable)
Internet code
.dm

References
  1. National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, retrieved 27 May 2019
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 August 2006. Retrieved 20 August 2006.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "BUSINESS BYTE: SAT Telecommunications becomes Digicel Play". Dominica News Online.
  4. "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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