Faroe Islands Communications 2008, CIA World Factbook




Faroe Islands Communications 2008 https://allcountries.org/wfb2008/faroe_islands/faroe_islands_communications.html SOURCE: 2008 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

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Telephones - main lines in use:
23,000 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
50,000 (2006)

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 repeaters) (September 1995)

Internet country code:
.fo

Internet hosts:
8,490 (2007)

Internet users:
34,000 (2006)

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