Short facts about communications in Denmark

Telephones - main lines in use:

4.785 million (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

1,444,016 (1997)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  excellent telephone and telegraph services domestic:  buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form trunk network, 4 cellular mobile communications systems international:  18 submarine fiber-optic cables linking Denmark with Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Canada; satellite earth stations - 6 Intelsat, 10 Eutelsat, 1 Orion, 1 Inmarsat (Blaavand-Atlantic-East); note - the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) share the Danish earth station and the Eik, Norway, station for worldwide Inmarsat access (1997)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 2, FM 355, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:

6.02 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

26 (plus 51 repeaters) (1998)

Televisions:

3.121 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.dk

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

13 (2000)

Internet users:

2.3 million (2000)

Source: World Factbook