general assessment:
can communicate worldwide domestic: automatic network international: country code - 290; HF radiotelephone from Saint
Helena to Ascension Island, which is a major coaxial submarine cable
relay point between South Africa, Portugal, and UK; satellite earth
stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio
broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0
(1998)
Radios:
3,000 (1997)
Television
broadcast stations:
0 note: television programs are received in Saint Helena via
satellite and distributed by cable (2002)
Televisions:
2,000 (1997)
Internet
country code:
.sh
Internet
Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)
Internet
users:
500 (2002)
Communications - note:
Gough Island has a
meteorological station
Transportation
Saint Helena
Highways:
total:
198 km (Saint Helena 138 km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha 20 km)
paved: 168 km (Saint Helena 118km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da
Cunha 10 km) unpaved: 30 km (Saint Helena 20 km, Ascension 0 km, Tristan da
Cunha 10 km) (2000)