Communications Of Faroe Islands

Telephones main lines in use 23,000 (2002)
 
Telephones mobile cellular 30,700 (2002)
 
Telephone system
general assessment: good international communications; good domestic facilities
domestic: digitalization was completed in 1998; both NMT (analog) and GSM (digital) mobile telephone systems are installed
international: country code - 298; satellite earth stations - 1 Orion; 1 fiber-optic submarine cable to the Shetland Islands, linking the Faroe Islands with Denmark and Iceland; fiber-optic submarine cable connection to Canada-Europe cable
 
Radio broadcast stations AM 1, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)
 
Radios 26,000 (1997)
 
Television broadcast stations 3 (plus 43 low-power repeaters) (September 1995)
 
Televisions 15,000 (1997)
 
Internet country code .fo
 
Internet hosts  
Internet Service Providers ISPs   2 (2000)
Internet users 25,000 (2002)

 

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