Communications in the Netherlands Antilles

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Communications in the Netherlands Antilles

1 Telephone
2 Radio
3 Television
4 Internet

[edit] Telephone

Telephones - main lines in use: 75,000 (1995)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 11,727 (1995)

Telephone system: generally adequate facilities

domestic: extensive interisland microwave radio relay links

international: 2 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

[edit] Radio

Radio broadcast stations: AM 9, FM 4 (1998), shortwave 1 (Radio Netherlands transmits programs to North and South America from there)

Radios: 217,000 (1997)

[edit] Television

Television broadcast stations: 3 (there is also a cable service which supplies programs received from various US satellite networks and two Venezuelan channels) (1997)

Televisions: 69,000 (1997)

[edit] Internet

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 6 (1999)

Country code: AN

v • d • e Communications in North America

Sovereign states	Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Canada · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama¹ · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · St. Vincent and the Grenadines · Trinidad and Tobago¹ · United States

Dependencies and other territories	American Samoa² · Anguilla · Aruba¹ · Bermuda · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Greenland · Guadeloupe · Guam² · Martinique · Montserrat · Navassa Island · Netherlands Antilles · Northern Mariana Islands² · Puerto Rico · St. Barthélemy · St. Martin · St. Pierre and Miquelon · Turks and Caicos Islands · United States Virgin Islands

¹ Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (South America). ² Territories also in or commonly reckoned to be in the Pacific basin.

v • d • e Communications in South America

Sovereign states	Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama¹ · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago¹ · Uruguay · Venezuela

Dependencies	Aruba¹ / Netherlands Antilles¹ (Netherlands) · Falkland Islands / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) · French Guiana (France)

¹ Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (North America).