Telephones - main lines in use:
2,200 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: can communicate worldwide
domestic: automatic digital network
international: country code (Saint Helena) - 290, (Ascension Island) - 247; international direct dialing; satellite voice and data communications; satellite earth stations - 5 (Ascension Island - 4, Saint Helena - 1)

Radio broadcast stations:
Saint Helena: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0
Ascension: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 1 (2005)

Television - broadcast stations:
0 (3 television channels are received via satellite and distributed by UHF) (2005)

Internet country code:
.sh; note - Ascension Island assigned .ac

Internet hosts:
306 (2008)

Internet users:
1,000; note - includes Ascension Island (2003)