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Europe > Faroe Islands > Media

FAROESE MEDIA STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Average cost of local call 0.4 [3rd of 151]
International dialling code 298
Mobile phone subscribers 38,640 ... [174th of 198]
Personal computers 3,000 ... [88th of 164]
Phone subscribers 931.62 [32nd of 178]
Price basket for residential fixed line > US$ per month 29.36 $/month ... [12th of 151]
Radio broadcast stations
AM 1, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios 26,000 [200th of 221]
Telecommunications investment > % of revenue 3.7 % ... [99th of 165]
Telecommunications investment > current LCU 11084200 ...
Telecommunications revenue > current LCU 370000000 ...
Telephone employees, total 257 ... [135th of 194]
Telephone mainlines 20,111 ... [171st of 202]
Telephone system > Domestic
digitalization was completed in 1998; both NMT (analog) and GSM (digital) mobile telephone systems are installed
Telephone system > General assessment
good international communications; good domestic facilities
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
Telephones > Main lines in use 23,800 [182nd of 225]
Telephones > Mobile cellular 42,500 [184th of 220]
Television broadcast stations 3 [129th of 220]
Televisions 15,000 [180th of 215]

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SOURCES: ; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; CIA World Factbook, December 2003

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Faroe Islands, faeroe islands, Foroyar

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