Telephone
Telephones - main lines in use: 74,200 (2008)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 80,300 (2005)
Telephone system:
- general assessment: modern system with total digital switching, uses fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
- domestic: full range of services available
- international: submarine cable connections to US, the Caribbean, Central and South America;; satellite earth stations - NA
Country Code/Area Code +1-340
Read more about this topic: Communications In The United States Virgin Islands
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“A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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—Howard Brenton (b. 1942)