Sure South Atlantic Ltd provide the telecommunications service in the territory. As of 1997, there were 2,000 television sets in the territory. A local television channel was in operation from 2015 to 2017 by SAMS, consisting of a weekly news bulletin.
The feed signal is received by a satellite dish at Bryant's Beacon. The current digital broadcasting network using the DVB-T2 standard was installed on the island in late 2011, replacing the old analogue system.
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Television services first arrived in 1995 using 3 analogue encrypted TV channels, rebroadcasting a variety of foreign content from satellite. Sure SA offers television for the island via 15 digital encrypted DVB-T2 channels, which rebroadcast a compilation of British and South African programmes provided by MultiChoice.
As of 1997, there were 3,000 radios in the area. It broadcast news, features and music in collaboration with its sister newspaper, the St Helena Independent (which continues). It was relayed in Ascension Island and was not government funded. Saint FM, the precursor of Saint FM community radio, was launched in January 2005 and closed on 21 December 2012. Helena Broadcasting (Guarantee) Corporation). Helena Government and run by the South Atlantic Media Services (formerly St. It closed on 25 December 2012 to make way for a new three-channel FM service, also funded by St. The station presented news, features and music in collaboration with its sister newspaper, the St Helena Herald. Previously, Radio St Helena, which started operations on Christmas Day 1967, provided a local radio service that had a range of about 60 miles (100 km) from the island, and also broadcast internationally on Shortwave Radio (11092.5 kHz) on one day a year. The station's sister newspaper is the St Helena Independent. The station is legally a company registered by guarantee and is owned by its members Anyone who wishes to can become a member. Saint FM Community Radio broadcasts on FM. SAMS also produces a weekly newspaper, The Sentinel. South Atlantic Media Services (SAMS), supported by the St Helena Government, broadcasts two FM stations: SAMS Radio 1, providing locally produced news, talk and music programming SAMS also rebroadcasts the BBC World Service. All are also available on internet radio. There are three radio stations in St Helena as of 2023, all broadcasting on FM. Telecom services in St Helena are comparatively expensive, for example, all TV channels are encrypted and a subscription costs amount to more than one tenth of an average worker's salary. There are three radio stations broadcasting in St Helena as of 2023 and two weekly newspapers, The Sentinel and the St Helena Independent. Prior to 1989 telecoms were operated by the government.
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Cable and Wireless was the license holder from 1989 to 2013. New telecoms legislation and new license terms are being drafted by the government, with the arrival of subsea cable access. All of St Helena's international connectivity was by satellite until the activation of the Equiano submarine cable in October 2023.
They have an exclusive license from the St Helena Government to operate the aformentioned services, with the current licence running to 1 July 2025.
Saint Helena Ĭommunications services in St Helena are provided by Sure South Atlantic (Sure SA), providing landline ( POTS), mobile ( 2G/ 4G), internet ( ADSL2), television ( DVB-T2) and international connectivity. Much of the preceding telecommunications infrastructure between Saint Helena and Ascension was laid in 1899 by the Eastern Telegraph Company, later Cable & Wireless plc and Sure South Atlantic, as part of the British need to track the Second Boer War. Their communications provision includes dedicated radio and television stations, and telecommunications infrastructure. Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, consisting of the island of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha including Gough Island. Messenger and data services in the mid-Atlantic British territories
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