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Other pages in this profile of the Faroe Islands:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
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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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Airports |
1 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
total: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2007) |
Roadways |
total: 458 km note: no roads between towns (2003) |
Merchant marine |
total: 16 ships (1000 GRT or over) 92,454 GRT/63,291 DWT by type: cargo 10, container 2, passenger/cargo 3, petroleum tanker 1 foreign-owned: 8 (Iceland 4, Norway 4) (2007) |
Ports and terminals |
Torshavn |
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