Communications in Iceland
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Telephones - main lines in use:
196,984 (2001)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
248,131 (221,231 GSM, 26,900 NMT) (2001)
<p>Telephone system:
extensive domestic service
domestic:
the trunk network consists of coaxial and fiber-optic cables and microwave radio relay links
international:
satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Iceland shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden); CANTAT-3 submarine cable, FARICE-1 submarine cable
<p>Telephone country code: +354
<p>Radio broadcast stations:
AM 3, FM about 70 (including repeaters), shortwave 1 (1998)
<p>Radios:
260,000 (1997)
<p>Television broadcast stations:
14 (plus 156 low-power repeaters) (1997)
<p>Televisions:
98,000 (1997)
<p>Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
20 (2001)
<p>Country code (Top-level domain): IS
<p>Internet users:
220,000 (2002)
- Morgunblaðið - an Icelandic newspaper
- Fréttablaðið - another Icelandic newspaper, delivered free of charge in the South-west and Akureyri (it is sponsored by advertisements)
- Blaðið - another Icelandic newspaper, delivered free of charge in the Reykjavík area (sponsored by advertisements)
- Iceland Review - Iceland's oldest English language publication
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