Telecommunications in Curaçao

Telecommunications in Curaçao and the Netherlands Antilles

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)

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)

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)

Internet

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 6 (1999)

Country code: .cw (Curaçao West Indies)

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