Telecommunications in the British Virgin Islands

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Country Code: +1284
International Call Prefix: 011 (outside NANP)

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