Telecommunications in the Falkland Islands

Telecommunications in the Falkland Islands includes radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.

## Radio and television

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* Radio: Radio services provided by the public broadcaster, Falkland Islands Radio Service, broadcasting on both AM and FM frequencies, and by the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) (2007).[1]
* Radio sets: 1,000 (1997).[needs update]

* Television: TV service provided by a multi-channel service provider (2007).[1]
* Television sets: 1,008 (2001).[needs update]

Six free-to-air digital channels are provided by BFBS: BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News and BFBS Extra for non-military audiences. Entitled personnel within British Forces South Atlantic can also receive Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2 and BFBS Sport.[2]

A local subscription service, KTV carries satellite channels such as ESPN, Discovery, CNN International and Turner Classic Movies (from the United States) along with BBC World News from the United Kingdom.[3]

## Telephones

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See also: Telephone numbers in the Falkland Islands

* Calling code: +500[1]
* International call prefix: 00[4]
* Main lines: 1,980 lines in use (2012), 218th in the world.[1]
* Mobile cellular: 3,450 lines, 216th in the world (2012);[1] Cable & Wireless launched "Touch" a GSM 900 mobile service during December 2005; Roaming became partially available in April 2007 depending on providers.[citation needed]
* Domestic: Government-operated radiotelephone and private VHF/CB radiotelephone networks provide effective service to almost all points on both islands (2011).[1] Services in Stanley are delivered via fibre optic and copper.[citation needed] Telephone penetration by household is 100%.[citation needed]
* Satellite earth station: 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) with links through the United Kingdom to other countries (2011).[1]

## Internet

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* Top-level domain: .fk[1]
* Internet users: 2,842 users, 208th in the world; 96.9% of the population, 1st in the world (2012).[5][6]
* Fixed broadband: 1,187 subscriptions, 179th in the world; 40.5% of the population, 5th in the world (2012).[5][7]
* Wireless broadband: unknown (2012).[8]
* Internet hosts: 110 hosts, 207th in the world (2012).[1]
* Internet Service Providers (ISPs): Sure South Atlantic (formerly Cable & Wireless).[9]
* ADSL services were launched in Stanley in mid-2006.[9]

## References

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This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook (2025 ed.). CIA. (Archived 2013 edition.)

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Communications: Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)", World Factbook, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, 3 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
2. ^ The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) has started a new contract to deliver television and radio programmes to the UK Armed Forces, Ministry of Defence, 2 April 2013
3. ^ "KTV Ltd".
4. ^ Dialing Procedures (International Prefix, National (Trunk) Prefix and National (Significant) Number) (in Accordance with ITY-T Recommendation E.164 (11/2010)), Annex to ITU Operational Bulletin No. 994-15.XII.2011, International Telecommunication Union (ITU, Geneva), 15 December 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
5. ^ a b Calculated using penetration rate and population data from "Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012" Archived 2017-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, Population data, International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 26 June 2013
6. ^ "Percentage of Individuals using the Internet 2000-2012", International Telecommunication Union (Geneva), June 2013, retrieved 22 June 2013
7. ^ "Fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 2012", Dynamic Report, ITU ITC EYE, International Telecommunication Union. Retrieved on 29 June 2013.
8. ^ "Active mobile-broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants 2012", Dynamic Report, ITU ITC EYE, International Telecommunication Union. Retrieved on 29 June 2013.
9. ^ a b Sure Falkland Islands History, Sure South Atlantic. Retrieved 5 January 2014.

## External links

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* KTV, website.
* Station History, Falkland Islands Radio Service (FIRS).
* How it all started, Saint FM (Falklands).
* Sure Falkland Islands History, Sure South Atlantic, the successor to Cable & Wireless.

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Falkland Islands

Capital: Port Stanley

History|

* 1770 Falklands crisis
* 1833 British Reassertion
* Hope Place
* Port Egmont
* Puerto Soledad
* 1982 invasion
* Falklands War

Geography|

| Islands|

* Arch
* Bald
* Barclay
* Barren
* Beaver
* Beauchene
* Bird
* Bleaker
* Bobs
* Broken
* Burdwood Bank
* Carcass
* Dunbar
* Dyke
* East Falkland
* Lafonia
* East
* Eddystone Rock
* Elephant Cays
* Fox
* George
* Golding
* Great
* Hog
* Hummock
* Jason
* Keppel
* Kidney
* Lively
* Long
* New
* Passage
* Pebble
* Penn
* Quaker
* Rabbit
* Ruggles
* Sandy Bay
* Saunders
* Sea Dog
* Sea Lion
* Speedwell
* Split
* Staats
* Swan
* Tea
* Tyssen
* Weddell
* West Falkland
* West Point

|

Locations|

* Ajax Bay
* Bay of Harbours
* Bertha's Beach
* Bluff Cove
* Brenton Loch
* Bull Point
* Byron Heights
* Camp
* Cape Bougainville
* Cape Pembroke
* Chartres
* Chatham
* Circum Peak
* Darwin
* Douglas
* Dunnose Head
* Eagle Passage
* Falkland Sound
* Fitzroy
* Fox Bay
* French
* Goose Green
* Grantham Sound
* Green Patch
* Gull
* Hill Cove
* Hope Harbour
* Hornby Mountains
* Horse
* Hoste Inlet
* Johnson's Harbour
* Lafonia
* Loop
* Mount Adam
* Mount Alice
* Mount Maria
* Mount Usborne
* Mount Weddell
* New Haven
* New Year Cove
* North Arm
* Orqueta
* Pebble Island Settlement
* Pillar
* Pleasant Peak
* Port Albemarle
* Port Howard
* Port Louis
* Port Patterson
* Port San Carlos
* Port Stephens
* Quaker Harbour
* Race
* Rincon Grande
* Roy Cove
* Salvador
* San Carlos
* Seal Bay
* Smylie Channel
* Stanley
* Stanley Harbour
* Swan
* Teal Inlet
* Volunteer Point
* Walker Creek
* Weddell Point
* Weddell Settlement

Politics|

* Chief Executive
* Constitution
* Falkland Islands pound (currency)
* Government House
* Governor
* list
* Legislative Assembly
* Representative Office, London
* Sovereignty dispute

Military|

* Falkland Islands Defence Force
* Mare Harbour
* RAF Mount Pleasant
* 1312 Flight
* 1435 Flight
* RRH Mount Kent
* RRH Byron Heights
* RRH Mount Alice

Economy|

* Falkland Islands Company
* Falkland Islands Development Corporation
* Falkland Islands General Employees Union
* Falkland Landholdings Corporation
* Falklands Oil and Gas

Society|

* Education
* Falkland Islands Community School
* Falkland Islanders
* Origins
* Falklands Conservation
* Human rights
* LGBTQ
* Languages
* Falkland Islands English
* Law Enforcement
* Telecommunications
* Internet domain
* Transport
* Falkland Islands Government Air Service
* Mount Pleasant Airport
* Port Stanley Airport

Culture|

* Coat of arms
* Flag
* Motto
* Religion
* Anglican parish
* Christ Church Cathedral
* Roman Catholicism
* Scouting and Guiding

Sport|

* Commonwealth Games
* Cricket team
* Football team
* Rifle Association
* Rugby union

(*) Sixth-formers attend Peter Symonds College in England, and national diploma / NVQ students attend Chichester College in England

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Telecommunications industry in the United Kingdom

* Economy of the United Kingdom
* Science and technology in the United Kingdom

Companies|

| Infrastructure
providers|

* Arqiva
* Babcock International
* BT Wholesale and Ventures
* CityFibre
* KCOM Group
* Nexfibre
* Openreach
* Interxion
* TelecityGroup
* Telehouse Europe

|

Service
providers|

| Current|

* Andrews & Arnold
* Asda Mobile
* BT Group
* BT Consumer
* BT Business and Public Sector
* BT Global Services
* EE
* Plusnet
* China Mobile
* CMLink
* Claranet
* Colt Group
* The Co-operative
* Cable & Wireless
* Entanet
* Inmarsat
* KCOM Group
* Eclipse Internet
* Lebara
* Lycamobile
* Sky
* Sky Broadband
* spusu
* TalkTalk
* Business
* Mobile
* TV
* Telecom Plus
* Tesco
* Three
* Three UK
* SMARTY
* Tru
* Virgin Media O2
* O2
* Giffgaff
* Virgin Media
* Virgin Media Business
* Vodafone
* Vodafone UK
* Talkmobile
* Voipfone
* WightFibre
* Zen Internet

|

Defunct|

* AOL
* Atlantic Telegraph Company
* Be Un Limited
* Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company
* British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph
* Cable & Wireless plc
* Cable & Wireless Worldwide
* Electric Telegraph Company
* Energis
* Family
* General Post Office
* Gutta Percha Company
* Ionica
* London & Provincial District Telegraph
* Mercury
* National Telephone Company
* NTL
* Orange
* Ovivo
* Post Office
* Pipex
* Rabbit
* Sainsbury's
* Submarine Telegraph
* Tiscali UK
* T-Mobile
* Trunk Networks
* Leetline
* No One
* Universal Private Telegraph
* Virgin Mobile

Suppliers|

| Current|

* Arm Holdings
* Icera
* Metaswitch
* Sarantel
* Spirent
* Telent

|

Defunct|

* CSR
* GEC Plessey
* Marconi Company
* Marconi Communications
* Pace
* PicoChip
* Standard

Other|

* Carphone Warehouse
* Hibu

Government and
regulatory bodies|

* Broadband Stakeholder Group
* Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
* European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations
* International Telecommunication Union
* Ofcom
* Phone-paid Services Authority

Industry bodies|

* GSM Association
* Internet Service Providers Association
* Internet Telephony Services Providers' Association
* LONAP
* London Internet Exchange
* MaNAP

In Crown Dependencies and
British Overseas Territories|

* Akrotiri and Dhekelia
* Anguilla
* Antarctica (including British Antarctic Territory)
* Ascension Island
* Bermuda
* British Indian Ocean Territory
* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Falkland Islands
* Gibraltar
* Guernsey
* Isle of Man
* Jersey
* Montserrat
* Pitcairn Islands
* Saint Helena
* South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* Tristan da Cunha

History,
legislation|

* Adastral Park
* British Approvals Board for Telecommunications
* British Telecommunications Act 1981
* British telephone socket
* BT Research
* BT site engineering code
* Buzby
* Communications Act 2003
* Earth stations in UK
* Hull Colour Pages
* Interception of Communications Act 1985
* Internet in UK
* Telegraph Act
* Telegraph Act 1868
* Telegraph Act 1885
* Telephone numbers in UK
* UK telephone code misconceptions
* Web blocking in UK

*  Category
*  Commons

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Telecommunications in the Americas

Sovereign
states|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Argentina
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Canada
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* El Salvador
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Suriname
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Dependencies
and territories|

* Anguilla
* Aruba
* Bermuda
* Bonaire
* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Falkland Islands
* French Guiana
* Greenland
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Montserrat
* Puerto Rico
* Saba
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Martin
* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* Sint Eustatius
* Sint Maarten
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands

* North America
* Central America
* Caribbean
*   *   *   * South America

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Telecommunications

History|

* Beacon
* Broadcasting
* Cable protection system
* Cable TV
* Communications satellite
* Computer network
* Data compression
* audio
* DCT
* image
* video
* Digital media
* Internet video
* online video platform
* social media
* streaming
* Drums
* Edholm's law
* Electrical telegraph
* Fax
* Heliographs
* Hydraulic telegraph
* Information Age
* Information revolution
* Internet
* Mass media
* Mobile phone
* Smartphone
* Optical telecommunication
* Optical telegraphy
* Pager
* Photophone
* Prepaid mobile phone
* Radio
* Radiotelephone
* Satellite communications
* Semaphore
* Phryctoria
* Semiconductor
* device
* MOSFET
* transistor
* Smoke signals
* Telecommunications history
* Telautograph
* Telegraphy
* Teleprinter (teletype)
* Telephone
* The Telephone Cases
* Television
* digital
* streaming
* Undersea telegraph line
* Videotelephony
* Whistled language
* Wireless revolution

Pioneers|

* Nasir Ahmed
* Edwin Howard Armstrong
* Mohamed M. Atalla
* John Logie Baird
* Paul Baran
* John Bardeen
* Alexander Graham Bell
* Emile Berliner
* Tim Berners-Lee
* Francis Blake
* Jagadish Chandra Bose
* Charles Bourseul
* Walter Houser Brattain
* Vint Cerf
* Claude Chappe
* Yogen Dalal
* Donald Davies
* Daniel Davis Jr.
* Amos Dolbear
* Thomas Edison
* Philo Farnsworth
* Reginald Fessenden
* Lee de Forest
* Elisha Gray
* Oliver Heaviside
* Robert Hooke
* Erna Schneider Hoover
* Harold Hopkins
* Gardiner Greene Hubbard
* Bob Kahn
* Dawon Kahng
* Charles K. Kao
* Narinder Singh Kapany
* Hedy Lamarr
* Roberto Landell
* Innocenzo Manzetti
* Guglielmo Marconi
* Robert Metcalfe
* Antonio Meucci
* Samuel Morse
* Jun-ichi Nishizawa
* Charles Grafton Page
* Radia Perlman
* Alexander Stepanovich Popov
* Tivadar Puskás
* Johann Philipp Reis
* Claude Shannon
* Almon Brown Strowger
* Henry Sutton
* Charles Sumner Tainter
* Nikola Tesla
* Camille Tissot
* Alfred Vail
* Thomas A. Watson
* Charles Wheatstone
* Vladimir K. Zworykin
* Internet pioneers

Transmission
media|

* Coaxial cable
* Fiber-optic communication
* optical fiber
* Free-space optical communication
* Molecular communication
* Radio waves
* wireless
* Transmission line
* telecommunication circuit

Network topology
and switching|

* Bandwidth
* Links
* Network switching
* circuit
* packet
* Nodes
* terminal
* Telephone exchange

Multiplexing|

* Space-division
* Frequency-division
* Time-division
* Polarization-division
* Orbital angular-momentum
* Code-division

Concepts|

* Communication protocol
* Computer network
* Data transmission
* Store and forward
* Telecommunications equipment

Types of network|

* Cellular network
* Ethernet
* ISDN
* LAN
* Mobile
* NGN
* Public Switched Telephone
* Radio
* Television
* Telex
* UUCP
* WAN
* Wireless network

Notable networks|

* ARPANET
* BITNET
* CYCLADES
* FidoNet
* Internet
* Internet2
* JANET
* NPL network
* TANet
* Toasternet
* Usenet

Locations|

* Africa
* Americas
* North
* South
* Antarctica
* Asia
* Europe
* Oceania
* Global telecommunications regulation bodies

* Telecommunication portal
* Category
* Outline
* Commons

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