Short facts about communications in Faroe Islands

Telephones - main lines in use:

24,851 (1999)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

10,761 (1999)

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:  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 Service Providers (ISPs):

2 (2000)

Internet users:

3,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook