Saint Kitts and Nevis is a member of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), whose assigned area code is area code 869.
When calling a telephone number in the United States, Canada or any other NANP member country from Saint Kitts and Nevis, the user would dial 1 + area code + phone number.
When calling a telephone number inside Saint Kitts and Nevis from the United States, Canada or other countries participating in the NANP, the user would dial 1 + 869 + seven digit phone number.
Telephones - main lines in use: 17,000 (1997) Telephones - mobile cellular: at least 30,000(2005) Telephone system: General assessment: good inter-island and international connections Domestic: inter-island links to Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Martin (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles) are handled by VHF/UHF/SHF radiotelephone International: International calls are carried by radiotelephone to Antigua and Barbuda and switched there to submarine cable or to Intelsat; or carried to Saint Martin (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles) by radiotelephone and switched to Intelsat.
Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 28,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 1 (ZIZ-TV, plus three repeaters) (1997) Televisions: 10,000 (1997) Country code: .kn (Top-level domain) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 16 (2000) Internet users: 2,001 (2000) Average Internet Speed: 27.84 mbps download/10.74 mbps upload (2020)