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> Faroe Islands > Communications (Facts)
| Faroe Islands - Communications (Facts) |
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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: |
6,915 (2006) |
| Internet users: |
34,000 (2006) |
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