Faroe Islands: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 17,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 34 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 63,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 126 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: good international communications; good domestic facilities domestic: conversion to digital system 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 (2015) |
Broadcast media | 1 publicly owned TV station; the Faroese telecommunications company distributes local and international channels through its digital terrestrial network; publicly owned radio station supplemented by 3 privately owned stations broadcasting over multiple fr (2015) |
Internet country code | .fo |
Internet users | total: 47,000 percent of population: 94.2% (July 2015 est.) |