Card operated pay phones
Cable & Wireless provides card phone booths in Georgetown, Two Boats Village, RAF Travellers Hill camp, at the Airport departure terminal and on the US Military base. The public are able to dial locally and internationally from these card phones. The protel type card units accept Chip type phone cards. The card denominations are £3.00, £5.00 & £10.00 and they can be purchased from various vendors around the island.

Cable & Wireless, Ascension Island, currently operate 14 telephone booths, which are located in various locations around the Island. The telephone booths are Protel type units and use Chip cards only. Customers are able to dial Locally & Internationally from the booths. Phone cards for these booths can be purchased from various sale points around the Island. The card denominations are £3.00, £5.00 & £10.00. Full user instructions and a list of phone card vendor’s locations can be found posted in each of the card phone booths.

Telephone booth locations
  • Georgetown (main office car park)
  • Georgetown (main office lobby)
  • Georgetown (post office)
  • Georgetown (Obsidian hotel)
  • Two Boats club
  • Travellers Hill (Sergeants mess)
  • Travellers Hill (NAAFI shop)
  • Travellers Hill (Guard room)
  • Travellers Hill (Tri-star village)
  • Air Terminal
  • US Base (Nr. BX)
  • US Base (Nr. Volcano club)
Phone card vendor locations
  • main office counter, Cable & Wireless office, Georgetown
  • .
  • post office, Georgetown
  • Saints club bar, Georgetown
  • Solomon’s shop, Georgetown
  • Obsidian reception, Obsidian hotel, Georgetown
  • Volcano club bar, US Base
  • NAAFI shop, Travellers Hill
  • Two Boats club bar, Two Boats village
Below are the telephone booth tariffs

Cardphone tariffs

content box top left Destination Standard price content box top right
  St Helena £0.40 p/min  
  UK £1.10 p/min  
  Georgetown - Airhead/Travellers Hill 3xxx  
  U.S., Canada &s; Falkland Islands £1.10 p/min  
  South Africa £1.20 p/min  
  Antigua, Cyprus, Germany Ireland (Rep) & Seychelles £1.50 p/min  
  Rest of the World £1.70 p/min  
  Inmarsat ‘A’ £3.30 p/min  
  Inmarsat ‘B’ £1.95 p/min  


The following is a guide for the approximate duration of the various card values when used to dial the listed countries.

content box top left St Helena content box top right
  £3.00 £5.00 £10.00  
  7 mins 30 secs 12 mins 30 secs 25 mins  


content box top left UK content box top right
  £3.00 £5.00 £10.00  
  2 mins 44 secs 4 mins 33 secs 9 mins 5 secs  


content box top left US, Canada, & Falkland Islands content box top right
  £3.00 £5.00 £10.00  
  2 mins 44 secs 4 mins 33 secs 9 mins 5 secs  


content box top left South Africa content box top right
  £3.00 £5.00 £10.00  
  2 mins 30 secs 4 mins 10 secs 8 mins 20 secs  


content box top left Antigua, Cyprus, Germany, Ireland (Rep) & Seychelles content box top right
  £3.00 £5.00 £10.00  
  2 mins 3 mins 20 secs 6 mins 40 secs  


content box top left Rest of the World content box top right
  £3.00 £5.00 £10.00  
  1 Min 46 secs 2 mins 56 secs 5 mins 53 secs  


 Rates & tariffs
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