Telephones - main lines in use:
21,800 (2008)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
54,900 (2008)

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:
8,833 (2009)

Internet users:
37,500 (2008)