Communication in Faroe Islands
Telephone System
General Assesment
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.
International Dialing Code
298
Radio Broadcast Stations
AM 1, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)
Television Broadcast Stations
3 (plus 43 repeaters) (September 1995)
Internet Top Level Domain
.fo
Internet Users
34,000
Broadband Internet Users
Unknown
