Telephone

• Country calling code: 678

• Mobile phone system:
  • Number of mobile connections: 10,500 (2004)
  • Operators:
    • Telecom Vanuatu Limited (TVL) - (GSM) (EDGE)
    • Digicel
      Digicel
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       - (GSM)

• Fixed-line telephone system:
  • Number of fixed line connections: 6,800 (2004)
  • Operators:
    • Telecom Vanuatu Limited (TVL)
  • System:
    • domestic: Copper wire. Radio links in outer islands.
    • international: satellite
      Satellite
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       earth station - 1 Intelsat
      Intelsat
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       (Pacific Ocean
      Pacific Ocean
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      )

Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 broadcast

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

 stations:
AM 2, FM 4, shortwave 1 (2004)

Radios:
62,000 (1997)

Television

Television

Television

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

 broadcast stations:
1 (1997)

Television

Television

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

 Pay-TV (local) providers:
3 (2011)

Telsat Pacific (Terrestrial Distributed, English Content)

CanalSat (Satellite Distributed, French Content)

Servicom (Satellite Distributed, English Content)

Televisions:
2,000 (1997)

Internet

Country code

Country code

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 (Top level domain): .vu

Currently managed by Telecom Vanuatu Limited as "VUNIC".

Internet Service Provider

Internet service provider

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s (ISPs):

Telecom Vanuatu Limited (TVL) - Provides WIMAX (256kb - 1Mb), ADSL (128kb - 1Mb), Wireless (limited to downtown Port Vila) and various fixed and leased line services. VSAT is available for rural Vanuatu. Prepaid and Postpaid options are available. TVL does not have data caps but does lock customers into a 12-month contract.



Telsat Broadband Limited - Provides Carrier-Grade Wireless coverage to Port Vila and surrounds via their own independent network. Telsat also supplies and maintains VSAT systems for the other remote parts of Vanuatu. The minimum speed offered is 256Kbps up to 2Mbps but can tailor plans to suit individual business requirements. Pre-Paid and Subscription options are available. Telsat Broadband has data caps in effect on all standard accounts but does not have lock-in contracts.



Digicel Vanuatu Limited - GPRS only.



A 128kb/s ADSL connection costs 5,595 Vatu (almost US$60) per month while 512kb costs around 33,000 Vatu per month. Costs are expected to drop as competition heats up between TVL

TVL

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 and Telsat Broadband. Telsat is already offering subscription plans starting from 4,000 Vatu per month.

See also

• Vanuatu
  Vanuatu
  Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...
  
  
• Telsat Broadband
• TVL
• Digicel Vanuatu
• VUNIC

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