Faroe Islands - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in Faroe Islands was 15,341 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24,952 in 2000 and a minimum value of 3,208 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 3,208
1961 3,208
1962 3,208
1963 3,208
1964 3,208
1965 4,765
1966 4,765
1967 4,765
1968 4,765
1969 4,765
1970 6,910
1971 6,910
1972 6,910
1973 6,910
1974 6,910
1975 10,529
1976 11,400
1977 12,091
1978 12,709
1979 13,279
1980 13,781
1981 14,639
1982 15,517
1983 15,921
1984 17,040
1985 17,673
1986 18,311
1987 19,441
1988 20,816
1989 22,053
1990 22,825
1991 23,716
1992 23,741
1993 23,256
1994 22,637
1995 22,246
1996 22,856
1997 23,557
1998 24,032
1999 24,851
2000 24,952
2001 23,156
2002 24,408
2003 24,292
2004 23,958
2005 23,823
2006 23,043
2007 22,459
2008 21,822
2009 20,924
2010 20,175
2011 19,561
2012 18,685
2013 21,577
2014 20,999
2015 20,083
2016 19,078
2017 18,021
2018 17,188
2019 15,783
2020 15,341

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in Faroe Islands was 31.40 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 53.52 in 1999 and a minimum value of 9.27 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 9.27
1961 9.27
1962 9.27
1963 9.27
1964 9.27
1965 12.93
1966 12.93
1967 12.93
1968 12.93
1969 12.93
1970 17.71
1971 17.71
1972 17.71
1973 17.71
1974 17.71
1975 25.49
1976 27.32
1977 28.70
1978 29.88
1979 30.93
1980 31.80
1981 33.48
1982 35.18
1983 35.79
1984 37.96
1985 38.99
1986 39.96
1987 41.94
1988 44.45
1989 46.76
1990 48.28
1991 50.33
1992 50.79
1993 50.27
1994 49.37
1995 48.76
1996 50.11
1997 51.44
1998 52.13
1999 53.52
2000 53.39
2001 49.27
2002 51.68
2003 51.21
2004 50.33
2005 49.92
2006 48.22
2007 46.96
2008 45.63
2009 43.77
2010 42.19
2011 40.90
2012 39.05
2013 45.05
2014 43.78
2015 41.80
2016 39.60
2017 37.29
2018 35.44
2019 32.42
2020 31.40

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications