Landline Mobile cellular[1]: Telecom operators: 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.
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.
TTV ONE is the main commercial channel and carries a mixture of local and international sport, news and entertainment programming.
Estimated viewership: 35,000 (2017) Internet Service Providers (ISPs):Solomon Telekom: https://telekom.com.sb/ Archived 2019-06-30 at the Wayback MachineMcPacific: http://www.mc-pacific.com/satellite.html Archived 2019-06-27 at the Wayback MachineSATSOL: https://satsol.net/ People First Network: (PFnet) operate a community email network with 17 rural access points (Apr 2005) https://web.archive.org/web/20010415150953/http://www.peoplefirst.net.sb/General/PFnet.htm PFnet is also establishing a VSAT network of distance learning centres in rural community schools under an EU-funded project http://www.peoplefirst.net.sb/dlcp[permanent dead link] It is hoped each host school will contribute to the Wikipedia or create their own wikis.