Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands 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 users
25,000 (2002)



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