Telecommunications in Trinidad and Tobago include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.
Radio and television [ edit ] BBC World Service radio is available on 98.7 FM.[ 3]
Country Code :+1 Area Code :868 International Call Prefix : 011
Calls from Trinidad and Tobago to the US, Canada, and other NANP Caribbean nations, are dialed as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Calls from Trinidad and Tobago to non-NANP countries are dialed as 011 + country code + phone number with local area code.
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Main lines:287,000 lines in use, 119th in the world (2012);[ 2] 209,000 lines in use (1995). Mobile cellular:1.9 million lines, 147th in the world (2012);[ 2] 1.5 million lines (2007). Telephone system: excellent international service,tropospheric scatter toBarbados andGuyana ; good local service; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity roughly 170 telephones per 100 persons (2011).[ 2] Communications cables : five systems,AMERICAS-II ,Eastern Caribbean Fibre System (ECFS), Global Caribbean Network (GCN), Suriname-Guyana Submarine Cable System (SG-SCS), and Trinidad-Curaçao,[ 4] [ 2] Satellite earth stations : OneIntelsat (Atlantic Ocean ) (2011).[ 2] Landline Provider:Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT).,[ 5] Digicel Play ,Cable & Wireless Communications (branded asFLOW ), Amplia and RVR Technologies Ltd. Mobile Providers:Digicel andbmobile (TSTT). Cable & Wireless Communications has been shortlisted by TATT to receive anLTE License.[ 6] Top level domain :.tt [ 2] Internet users :846,000 users, 137th in the world; 69.2% of the population (July 2016 est.).[ 7] 729,897 users, 123rd in the world; 59.5% of the population, 66th in the world (2012).[ 8] [ 9] 593,000 users, 115th in the world (2009).[ 2] Fixed broadband : 166,948 subscriptions, 86th in the world; 13.6% of population, 65th in the world (2012).[ 8] [ 10] Wireless broadband : 18,028 subscriptions, 132nd in the world; 1.5% of the population, 131st in the world (2012).[ 11] Internet hosts : 241,690 users, 69th in the world (2012).[ 2] IPv4 : 470,016 addresses allocated, less than 0.05% of the world total, 383.3 addresses per 1000 people (2012).[ 12] [ 13] Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 10 (2018).[ 14] Facebook is the most popular social media platform.[ 3]
Internet censorship and surveillance [ edit ] There are no government restrictions on access to the Internet or credible reports that the government monitorse-mail or Internetchat rooms without judicial oversight.[ 15]
The constitution and the law provide forfreedom of speech andpress , and the government generally respects these rights in practice. An independent press, an effective judiciary, and a functioning democratic political system combine to ensure freedom of speech and press. The law prohibitsacts that would offend or insult another person or group on the basis of race, origin, or religion or that would incite racial or religious hatred . The constitution and the law prohibit arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence, and the government generally respects these prohibitions in practice.[ 15]
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