Montserrat

Montserrat

Montserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...

 possesses a number of telecommunications systems, including mobile and main line telephone

Telephone

The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...

, radio and television. The country code for Montserrat is "MS".

In Montserrat, there are 4,000 telephone main lines in use, and by 1994 figures, there are 70 mobile telephones. In terms of internet there are 17 internet service providers.

Montserrat possesses an AM radio station, and 2 FM

FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...

 stations. These serve 7,000 radios (by 1997 figures). There is one television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

broadcast station, which in 1997 was serving 3,000 televisions.