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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]
Digital terrestrial television > Analogue to digital transition > Start of closedown December 2002
Fax machines 29.52 per 1,000 people [10th of 103]
Fixed line and mobile phone subscribers > per 1,000 people 1,223.98 per 1,000 people Time series [30th of 193]
Households with television > % 112.04 % Time series [1st of 160]
International dialling code 298
Mobile phone subscribers 38,640 Time series [174th of 198]
Personal computers 3,000 Time series [88th of 164]
Phone subscribers 931.62 [32nd of 178]
Radio broadcast stations AM 1, FM 13, shortwave 0 Time series
Radios 26,000 [200th of 221]
Telecommunications investment > current LCU 11084200 Time series
Telephone mainlines 20,111 Time series [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 23,000 Time series [140th of 174]
Telephones > Mobile cellular 50,000 Time series [147th of 186]
Television broadcast stations 3 Time series [30th of 89]
Televisions 15,000 [180th of 215]

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SOURCES: ; Wikipedia: Digital terrestrial television ; The Information for Development Program; World Development Indicators database; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbook, December 2003

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Faroe Islands, faeroe islands, Foroyar

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