Telecommunications in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Telecommunications in Saint Pierre and Miquelon include telephone, radio, television, and internet usage.

Telephony

See also: Telephone numbers in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Telephones - main lines in use: 4,800 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 0 (1994) (SPM Telecom and Globaltel now offer GSM mobile phone service)

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: radiotelephone communication with most countries in the world; 1 earth station in French domestic satellite system

The Country calling code for Saint Pierre and Miquelon is 508.

Radio

Radio broadcast stations: AM 0 (stopped broadcasting in 2004), FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Out of the four radio stations in St. Pierre et Miquelon, three are on St. Pierre itself and one on Miquelon. Three of these stations belong to RFO - two on St. Pierre and one on Miquelon. In addition to broadcasting local and RFO programmes, these RFO stations broadcast the France-Inter radio service at night. The fourth radio station, Radio Atlantique, mostly relays Radio France Internationale.

Radios: 4,000 (1997)

See also: FM broadcasting in Canada

Television

Television broadcast stations: St. Pierre et Miquelon has two television stations owned and operated by Réseau France Outre-mer (RFO):

• Télé St. Pierre et Miquelon (call letters FQN) on Ch. 8, with a repeater on Ch. 31
• Tempo on Ch. 6

RFO features a variety of programs from France, as well as local news and sports. Although the station's programming otherwise derives entirely from France, Télé St. Pierre et Miquelon broadcasts the Atlantic Canadian edition of Le Téléjournal from CBAFT-DT daily at midnight.

Before digital terrestrial television, RFO was broadcasting using the SECAM-K1 colour system as designed for French overseas territories. From 2010, the national digital terrestrial television system broadcasts its service to Saint Pierre and Miquelon . Unlike SPM Telecom's cable service, DTT offers only the overseas public network La 1^re, the six France Télévisions metropolitan public channels, the public news channel France Info, and the French-German public channel Arte.

The local cable system, operated by SPM Telecom, also offers an array of broadcast and specialty channels from Canada and the US in SECAM, converted from NTSC.

Televisions: 4,000 (1997)

Internet

Internet service providers (ISPs):

• SPM Telecom - Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
• Globaltel - Saint-Pierre et Miquelon

Country code (Top level domain): .pm

See also

• Postage stamps and postal history of St. Pierre and Miquelon
• Telecommunications in France

External links

• La Première - St Pierre et Miquelon