Iceland - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Iceland was 107,032 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 199,503 in 2008 and a minimum value of 33,000 in 1960.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 33,000
1961 33,000
1962 33,000
1963 33,000
1964 33,000
1965 45,366
1966 45,366
1967 45,366
1968 45,366
1969 45,366
1970 57,593
1971 57,593
1972 57,593
1973 57,593
1974 57,593
1975 75,500
1976 73,900
1977 74,800
1978 77,700
1979 80,700
1980 84,837
1981 87,867
1982 91,200
1983 93,937
1984 97,245
1985 102,657
1986 113,028
1987 117,371
1988 121,650
1989 125,136
1990 130,472
1991 135,559
1992 140,031
1993 143,597
1994 148,330
1995 148,675
1996 156,807
1997 165,390
1998 173,673
1999 184,973
2000 196,336
2001 196,528
2002 187,999
2003 192,552
2004 190,478
2005 193,852
2006 188,575
2007 186,668
2008 199,503
2009 190,165
2010 193,614
2011 191,118
2012 180,004
2013 168,023
2014 171,535
2015 168,149
2016 164,566
2017 146,213
2018 124,975
2019 115,992
2020 107,032

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Iceland was 31.37 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 70.01 in 2000 and a minimum value of 18.79 in 1960.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1960 18.79
1961 18.79
1962 18.79
1963 18.79
1964 18.79
1965 23.59
1966 23.59
1967 23.59
1968 23.59
1969 23.59
1970 28.17
1971 28.17
1972 28.17
1973 28.17
1974 28.17
1975 34.62
1976 33.55
1977 33.65
1978 34.66
1979 35.69
1980 37.17
1981 38.09
1982 39.10
1983 39.80
1984 40.72
1985 42.49
1986 46.26
1987 47.51
1988 48.71
1989 49.58
1990 51.16
1991 52.62
1992 53.83
1993 54.67
1994 55.94
1995 55.55
1996 58.04
1997 60.65
1998 63.09
1999 66.57
2000 70.01
2001 69.47
2002 65.89
2003 66.87
2004 65.43
2005 65.72
2006 62.92
2007 61.17
2008 64.18
2009 60.17
2010 60.44
2011 59.08
2012 55.27
2013 51.35
2014 52.20
2015 50.92
2016 49.54
2017 43.72
2018 37.12
2019 34.21
2020 31.37

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications