Telecommunications in the British Virgin Islands
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Country Code: +1284
International Call Prefix: 011 (outside NANP)
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Calls from the British Virgin Islands to the US, Canada, and other NANP Caribbean nations, are dialled as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Calls from the British Virgin Islands to non-NANP countries are dialled as 011 + country code + phone number with local area code.
Number Format: nxx-xxxx
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:
Connected via submarine cable to Bermuda; the East Caribbean Fibre System (ECFS) submarine cable provides connectivity to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean (2007)
Radio stations: AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 (2004)
- ZBVI 780 Tortola
- ZJKC-FM 90.9 Tortola (repeats WJKC 95.1 Christiansted, USVI)
- 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 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