Telecommunications In The British Virgin Islands
Telephones - main lines in use: 11,700 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 8,000 (2002)
Telephone system: worldwide telephone service
general assessment: worldwide telephone service
domestic: NA
international: country code - 1-284; connected via submarine cable to Bermuda; the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) submarine cable provides connectivity to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean (2007)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 (2004)
- ZBVI-AM 780 Tortola
- ZJKC-FM 90.9 Tortola
- ZGLD-FM 91.7 Tortola
- ZCCR-FM 94.1 Todman's Peak
- ZWVE-FM 97.3 Tortola
- ZKNG-FM 100.9 Chalwell
- ZROD-FM 103.7 Tortola
- ZVCR-FM 106.9 Chalwell
Television broadcast stations: 1 (ZBTV), (plus one cable company) (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (1999)
Internet country code: .vg
Internet hosts: 465 (2008)
Internet users: 4,000 (2002)
- See also : British Virgin Islands
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