Faroe Islands' Communications | Faroese Communications

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)

Television broadcast stations: 3 (plus 43 low-power repeaters) (September 1995)

Internet country code: .fo

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

Internet users: 25,000 (2002)



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