Communications in the Solomon Islands. Telephones Landline 2009: 13,000 subscribers 2010: 8,400 subscribers 2018: 7,430 subscribers Mobile cellular: 2009: 55,000 subscribers, 20% penetration, 20%coverage 2018: 482,209 subscribers, 80% penetration, 95% coverage Telecom operators: Our Telekom (1988). Operates in nine Provinces bmobile (2010). Operates in four Provinces Telephone system: GSM mobile phone network covering all provincial capitals along with several other townships and villages and a landline system covering all provincial capitals and some townships. International dial code:+677 Landline number: 5-digits Mobile number: 7-digits Telekom: 7xx xxxx bmobile: 8xx xxxx Connectivity International Satellite: Leased geostationary and constellation Ka, Ku band satellites Undersea fibre: In January 2020, Solomon Islands was connected to Sydney, Australia via the Coral Seas Cable System (CS2) Earth stations: based in Honiara and Gizo Domestic Satellite: Leased, bi-directional geostationary satellites are used to connect Provinces too remote for microwave and fibre Undersea fibre: Interchange Cable Network 2 (ICN2S) In February 2020 as part of the Coral Seas Cable System project, Honiara (Guadalcanal Province) was also connected to Auki (Mataita Province), Taro (Choiseul Province) and Noro (Western Province) DSL, ADSL: To homes and businesses Fixed Wireless: Honiara Mobile: 2G/3G/4GLTE Radio Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 4 Paoa FM, ZFM100, Wan FM, and Barava FM, shortwave 1 (2002). The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation, founded in 1976, transmits regular programming. Radio Receivers: 57,000 (1997) In addition to regular broadcast stations, several shortwave utility station networks exist, such as the Church of Melanesia network. Television TTV is Solomon Islands only television network and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Solomon Telekom Co. Ltd. (STCL). STCL operates under the brand name - Our Telekom. TTV transmits in digital HD and analogue and is a free-to-air, commercial, terrestrial television network, located in the capital, Honiara. History: The first television broadcast was made possible in July 1992 by STCL who downlinked the Barcelona Summer Olympics utilising the satellite antennas used to relay international telephone calls and a small TV transmitter as an experiment. 2006: ONE News leased the STCL owned transmitters to broadcast a local channel until 2011 when it went out of business. 2008 (March): Telekom Television Ltd was formed 2016: HD services launched (FTA DVB-T). Commenced broadcasting National Parliament live to air on TTV ONE. 2019: Broadcast three analogue SD and sixteen 1080i/50 HD digital (DVB-T) channels in the VHF/UHF frequency bands. The HD channels, available in Honiara, are a mixture of