Telecommunications in American Samoa
Communication services in American Samoa are diversified among telephony, radio broadcasting, television, and Internet services.
Telephone
Membership: North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
- Land lines in use: 10,400 (2004); country comparison to the world: 202
- Mobile cellular subscribers: 2,200 (2004); country comparison to the world: 210
- domestic services: earth station
- international services: satellite earth station – Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)'
- Country code: 1
- NANP area code: 684
- International telephone number format: +1 684 NXX-XXXX (N=2–9, X=0–9)
- international access code: 011
Radio
Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 4 commercial, 4 non-commercial, 2 LPFM, shortwave 0 (2005)
Radios: 57,000 (1997)
Television
Television broadcast stations: 4 (2006) Televisions: 14,000 (1997)
Internet
In 2009, American Samoa was connected to the Internet using the
Situation in 2016
In 2012, American Samoa had the most expensive Internet access service in the U.S. according to Engadget.[6]
Under Governor Togiola Tulafono investment in a fibre optic network to replace aging copper infrastructure across all the islands of American Samoa[7] and the construction in 2015 of a 1.2 Gbit/s satellite uplink via O3b Networks which more than doubled available bandwidth to the rest of the world[8] resulted in broadband Internet service becoming more affordable, with the price of the cheapest available residential package decreasing from $75/month to $50/month and download speeds of the base package increasing from 256 kbit/s to 768 kbit/s.[9] The improved connectivity to the outside world has revived previously stalled hopes that a call center could be opened in American Samoa, boosting the local economy.[10]
Internet service providers (ISPs) | three ?[11] |
Internet country code |
.as |
Internet Hosts | 1,923 (2008) country rank in the world: 141 |
Internet users | NA |
Aleki Sene, Sr. Telecommunications Center
The Aleki Sene, Sr. Telecommunications Center
References
- ^ "iTWire - Samoans one step closer to broadband". www.itwire.com. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ eLandia. "eLandia and American Samoa Inaugurate Submarine Cable". Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "Hawaiki Cable Network". Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ^ "Samoa News - Hawaiki cable now live, promising faster, more reliable internet service". Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ^ "Hawaiki Transpacific Cable Completes Final Landing at American Samoa" (PDF). Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ^ "The most expensive internet in America: fighting to bring affordable broadband to American Samoa". Engadget. 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ^ "AMERICAN SAMOA FIBER OPTIC NETWORK". Underground Construction. Oildom Publishing Company of Texas, Inc. December 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- ^ "American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) Goes Live with O3b Networks, Significantly Improves Broadband-based Services to Territory Residents". O3b Networks. 2015-06-15. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Economic Development plan revives hope for call center". Osini Faleatasi Inc. 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- ^ ASTCA - Samoatelco [1], BlueSky Communications [2], Pacifica IT [3] Archived 2007-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Miller, Monica (August 2017). "American Samoa Telecommunications Authority". RNZ. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- ^ http://www.sraa.co.nz/Projects/Commercial/ASTCA+Telecommunications+Building.html "ASTCA Telecommunications building - Swan Railley Architects". Retrieved September 4, 2019.