Telecommunications in Dominica explained

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:

Domestic: fully automatic network
International: microwave radio relay and SHF radiotelephone links to Martinique and Guadeloupe; VHF and UHF radiotelephone links to Saint Lucia

Number formatting:

Telephone code

767

Number Format

nxx-xxxx

Country Code

+1767

International Call Prefix

011 (outside NANP)

Mobile cellular service providers:

Digicel
FLOW

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

External links

- Dominica, E.C. Tel
Dominica, SubmarineCableMap.com

Notes and References

Web site: National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, retrieved 27 May 2019 .
Web site: Marpin Telecoms & Broadcasting . 20 August 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060825030437/http://www.marpin.dm/ . 25 August 2006.
Web site: BUSINESS BYTE: SAT Telecommunications becomes Digicel Play. Dominica News Online.
Web site: SAT Telecommunications Ltd - Home . 23 July 2012 . dead . https://archive.today/20130212201458/http://www.sat.dm/ . 12 February 2013.