This article concerns the systems of telecommunications in Denmark.
Denmark has a highly developed and efficient telephone network, and has a number of radio and television broadcast stations.
Infrastructure
The Denmark telecommunications network consists of buried and submarine cables and a
microwave radio relay form trunk network, as well as four cellular radio communications systems.
There are 18 submarine fiber-optic cables linking Denmark with
Norway,
Sweden
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,
Russia,
Poland,
Germany, the
Netherlands,
United Kingdom,
Faroe Islands,
Iceland, and
Canada. There are also a number of
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Intelsat
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Eutelsat
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Orion, 1
Inmarsat (Blaavand-Atlantic-East). The
Nordic countries
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share the Danish earth station and the
Eik, Rogaland
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station for worldwide
Inmarsat access.
Telephones
Denmark has an excellent
telephone system network. There are 2.4 million (June 2006) main lines and 5.6 million (June 2006) mobile phones in use.
Internet
The country code top-level domain in Denmark is
.dk
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.
As of 2004, there were 2,666,520 internet users in Denmark and 12 ISP providers.
Radio
There are two AM radio broadcast stations in Denmark, 355 FM stations, and one DAB station with 17 channels as of 2005.
See also
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Internet censorship in Denmark
References
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