Faroe Islands - Communications

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Faroe Islands is located Northern Europe, island group between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about half way between Iceland and Norway. The climate is mild winters, cool summers; usually overcast; foggy, windy. The terrain is rugged, rocky, some low peaks; cliffs along most of coast.

Telephones

Telephones - main lines in use : 23,000 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 50,000 (2006)

Telephone system

This entry includes a brief general assessment of the system with details on the domestic and international components. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry
Telephone system - general assessment : good international communications; good domestic facilities
Telephone system - domestic : digitalization was completed in 1998; both NMT (analog) and GSM (digital) mobile telephone systems are installed
Telephone system - 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

This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.
Radio broadcast stations : AM 1, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios

Radios : 26,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations

Television broadcast stations : 3 (plus 43 repeaters) (September 1995)

Televisions

Televisions : 15,000 (1997)

Internet country code

This entry includes the two-letter codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).
Internet country code : .fo

Internet hosts

This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity.
Internet hosts : 8,516 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 2 (2000)

Internet users

This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months.
Internet users : 34,000 (2006)

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