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:
Number formatting:

767

nxx-xxxx

+1767

011 (outside NANP)

Mobile cellular service providers:

Internet

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
Internet code
  • .dm

    Radio

    Dominica's radio stations include the government-owned DBS Radio, as well as privately owned competitors Kairi FM and Q95; a religious service called Voice of Life also operates there.[2] DBS was founded in 1971 as Radio Dominica (supplanting material provided by Grenada's Windward Islands Broadcasting Service, WIBS),[3] while Voice of Life was established in 1974 by two North American missionaries and began transmissions in 1976.[2] In 1997, the island had 46,000 radio receivers.

    Television

    During the 1970s, relay services from Barbados' Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) represented the earliest attempts to bring television to Dominica; these were also provided to Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.[4] The experiment ceased after Hurricane David devastated the country in 1979; at the time, transmission was served from the Morne Bruce locality.[5]

    In lieu of a national television broadcast service,[2] [5] Dominica received cable service through the Marpin company in 1983.[6] By 2017, it was acquired by the local division of Flow, whose name it was rebranded under.[7] As of the early 2020s, Flow mainly carried North American and British programming, and broadcast a weekday-morning programme entitled Good Morning Dominica.[2] The country's other cable system, the later SAT Telecommunications, was similarly renamed Digicel Play in October 2014.[8] [9]

    Dominica had 11,000 television sets in 2007.

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: National Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, retrieved 27 May 2019 .
    2. Book: Morse . Kimberly J. . The Americas: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society . 2022 . . 978-1-440-85239-8 . 354 . https://google.com/books/edition/The_Americas/JRjOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=television+in+%22Dominica%22&pg=PA354&printsec=frontcover . 2024-10-04 . Dominica: Media . limited . Google Books.
    3. Book: Honychurch . Lennox . Lennox Honychurch . The Dominica Story . Development and Welfare: General Services . 194 . 1995 . . 0-333-62776-8 . 2nd.
    4. Book: Lent . John A. . Third World Mass Media and Their Search for Modernity: The Case of Commonwealth Caribbean, 1717-1976 . 1977 . . . 0-8387-1896-5 . 82 . 2024-10-04 . The Awakening (1938-44) and After: Radio, Television, Film . limited . Google Books.
    5. Book: Quinlan . Marsha B. . Hansen . Jenna R. . Hewlett . Bonnie Lynn . Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives . 2013 . . 978-0-415-89012-0 . 250 . 2024-10-04 . Introduction of Television and Dominica Youth: Modernization and Media in Bwa Mawego . limited . Google Books.
    6. Book: Favaro . Edgardo . Winter . Bryan . Favaro . Edgardo . Small States, Smart Solutions: Improving Connectivity and Increasing the Effectiveness of Public Services . 2008 . World Bank Publications . 978-0-8213-7461-0 . 136 . 2024-10-04 . Telecommunications Regulation in the Eastern Caribbean: The Spark for Change: The Formation of ECTEL . Google Books.
    7. News: Staff . Cable & Wireless acquires Marpin 2K4 Ltd . 2024-10-04 . Dominica News Online (DNO) . 2017-05-12.
    8. Web site: BUSINESS BYTE: SAT Telecommunications becomes Digicel Play. Dominica News Online (DNO).
    9. Web site: SAT Telecommunications Ltd - Home . 23 July 2012 . dead . https://archive.today/20130212201458/http://www.sat.dm/ . 12 February 2013.

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