title: Telecommunications in Saint Kitts and Nevis
text: # Telecommunications in Saint Kitts and Nevis
  
  This is a list of Communications in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
  
  ## Telephone
  
  Saint Kitts and Nevis is a member of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), whose assigned area code is area code 869.
  
  When dialing from a telephone in Saint Kitts and Nevis, telephone users can dial the local seven digit number. When calling a telephone number in the United States, Canada or any other NANP member country from Saint Kitts and Nevis, the user would dial 1 + area code + phone number.
  
  When calling a telephone number inside Saint Kitts and Nevis from the United States, Canada or other countries participating in the NANP, the user would dial 1 + 869 + seven digit phone number.
  
  Telephones - main lines in use: 17,000 (1997)
  
  Telephones - mobile cellular: at least 30,000(2005)
  
  Telephone system:
  
  General assessment: good inter-island and international connections
  
  Domestic: inter-island links to Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Martin (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles) are handled by VHF/UHF/SHF radiotelephone
  
  International: International calls are carried by radiotelephone to Antigua and Barbuda and switched there to submarine cable or to Intelsat; or carried to Saint Martin (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles) by radiotelephone and switched to Intelsat.
  
  ## Radio
  
  Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)
  
  * 550 ZIZ (Bird Rock)
  * 820
  * 860 VON - Voice of Nevis
  * 89.9 ZIZ (formerly 90.0)
  * 90.3 Sugar City Rock FM
  * 92.9 Gem Radio Network
  * 93.3 Gem Radio Network
  * 94.1 SKNBC Radio One
  * 95.9 ZIZ (formerly 96.0) (Nevis)
  * 96.1 ZIZ (formerly 96.0) (Basseterre)
  * 96.7 Big Wave Radio (Saint Kitts)
  * 96.9 ZIZ
  * 98.3 Vybz FM/Family FM
  * 98.9 Winn FM
  * 102.5 Kyss 102.5 FM - The Love Radio
  * 103.3 Goodwill Radio
  * 104.5 Goodwill Radio
  * 106.5 Freedom FM
  
  Radios: 28,000 (1997)
  
  ## Television
  
  Television broadcast stations: 1 (ZIZ-TV, plus three repeaters) (1997)
  
  Televisions: 10,000 (1997)
  
  ## Internet
  
  Country code: .kn (Top-level domain)
  
  Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 16 (2000)
  
  Internet users: 2,001 (2000)
  
  Average Internet Speed: 27.84 mbps download/10.74 mbps upload (2020)
  
  