Saint Helena Telecommunications Profile 2009

Telephones - main lines in use

2,200 (2002)

Telephone system

general assessment: can communicate worldwide
domestic: automatic digital network
international: country code (Saint Helena) - 290, (Ascension Island) - 247; international direct dialing; satellite voice and data communications; satellite earth stations - 5 (Ascension Island - 4, Saint Helena - 1)

Radios

3,000 (1997)

Radio broadcast stations

Saint Helena: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0
Ascension: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 1 (2005)

Televisions

2,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

0 (3 television channels are received via satellite and distributed by UHF) (2005)

Internet country code

.sh; note - Ascension Island assigned .ac

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

1 (2000)

Internet hosts

306 (2008)

Internet users

1,000; note - includes Ascension Island (2003)

Communications - note

South Africa maintains a meteorological station on Gough Island