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Is it the same cable company that also serves St Thomas? Can you get a good signal from DirecTV if you went that route? What companies provide internet access there?
Thanks
Hello,
Yes its the same cable company for all of the USVI.
No DirecTV in the VI; it's not licensed for sale here as yet.
Puerto Rico has it but it’s a different satellite dish than those in the states and a different access card as far as I understand.
Internet - Visit the Infrastructure section of our Moving/Living in the Virgin Islands guide at http://www.vimovingcenter.com/infrastructure/
Also, that site has a message board dedicated to discussions about living in the islands, so you will find more related topics to what you are looking for... i.e. Internet access, cable etc.
--Islander
Thanks for the info!
So if I bought a DirecTV system in the states and brought it to the USVI. I assume it would be confiscated at some point.
Uhh...what? Confiscated?
If it's one of the small (12-18") parabolic dishes, your issue would be that you probably wouldn't get service.
We are on the edge of the satellite "footprint" down here. Think about it- if you were going to spend tons and tons of $$ to put a satellite in orbit, where would you point it? At the most populous areas, right? And little ol' us....we're a speck in the ocean.
So we can get satellite signal, but it usually needs to be "amplified" with a big dish.
Cal and Renee of Satellite Entertainment Service are the best folks to talk to. Search this site or the moving forum to get their number.
Good luck.
Best,
LR
I knew that the signal is pointed towards the northern part of central Mexico (just south of Texas). But S Forida gets the signal fine. I didn't realize that the Caribbean was on the fringe of the signal.
Thanks
South Florida sits at about 25 degrees north. We are at 18 degrees north.
Its not the north but rather the east thing that makes reception difficult there I suppose.
Choice or Innovative are your best local bets for service. Choice has small dishes like in the states becuse they point at local towers not satellites in the sky. To get sat in the sky you have to get a 6' dish in your yard which costs close to $700 to install. Innovative is your best bet for cheap cable tv.
Actually there is and ad running in the paper for Dish Network with two receivers for $300 installed!
RL
