Telecommunications in the Cayman Islands explained

Communications in the Cayman Islands

Telephone

Telephones – main lines in use: 37,400 (2009) ^[1]

Telephones – mobile cellular: 99,900 (2004)

Telephone system:

Domestic: Reasonably good overall telephone system with a high fixed-line teledensity. Liberalization of telecom market in 2003; introduction of competition in the mobile-cellular market in 2004. FLOW Cayman, Digicel

International: The Cayman Islands have landing points for the MAYA-1, and the Cayman-Jamaica Fiber System submarine cables that provide links to the US and parts of Central and South America. Service on both of these cables are controlled by Liberty Latin America.

Satellite earth station – 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007) Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio

Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 17, shortwave 0 (2006)

• List of radio stations in Cayman Islands

Radios: 36,000 (1997)

Television

Television broadcast stations: Cayman27

Internet

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):Four companies offer internet service in the islands with in fixed configurations or mobile or both:

• Liberty Latin America d/b/a FLOW
• Digicel
• Logic - Fibre based service. Founded in 2004 as WestTel when it was granted a telecommunications license. Purchased TeleCayman in 2013
• C3

Country code (Top-level domain): .ky

References

1. Cayman Islands. 22 July 2012.