Short facts about communications in Saint Vincent and The Grenadines

Telephones - main lines in use:

20,500 (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

NA

Telephone system:

general assessment:  adequate system domestic:  islandwide, fully automatic telephone system; VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to the other islands of the Grenadines international:  VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to Barbados; new SHF radiotelephone to Grenada and to Saint Lucia; access to Intelsat earth station in Martinique through Saint Lucia

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:

77,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

1 (plus three repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:

18,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.vc

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

15 (2000)

Internet users:

2,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook