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Encyclopedia > Communications in Norway

Telephones - main lines in use: 2.735 million (1998)


Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,080,408 (1998)


Telephone system: high-quality domestic and international telephone, telegraph, and telex services
domestic: domestic satellite system
international: 2 buried coaxial cable systems; 4 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations - NA Eutelsat, NA Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Norway shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden)


Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM at least 650, shortwave 1 (1998)


Radios: 4.03 million (1997)


Television broadcast stations: 209 (1997)


Televisions: 2.03 million (1997)


Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 21 (1999)


Broadband Internet Service Subscribers: 396,000 (18% of households) (2003)
of which 78% are ADSL subscriptions


Country code (Top level domain): NO


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Norway - encyclopedia article about Norway. (3740 words)
It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak Strait and the Kattegat Strait on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia on the east.
Norway was one of the signatories of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 and was a founding member of the United Nations, providing its first secretary general – Trygve Lie.
Norway straddles the North Atlantic Ocean for its entire length, bound by three different seas: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerrak to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
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