
Telecommunication on the Faroe Islands
The development of telecommunications on the Faroe Islands is roughly equivalent to the United States. Under the country code +298, there were a total of 74,554 connections in 2021. Among them were 59,213 mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 1.1 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 7,575 webhosts, the Faroe Islands is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 294 of these, or about 4 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.Access to the internet on the Faroe Islands from 1990 - 2019
Broadband internet on the Faroe Islands 2001 - 2020
