Telecommunications in Norway are relatively advanced. There are about as many cellular phone subscription as there are inhabitants in the country (5.3 million), while the number of fixed line telephone subscriptions is declining towards 800,000. As of 2006, 79% of the population had access to internet at home, rising to 95% by 2012.
["Percentage of Individuals using the Internet 2000-2012"]
International Telecommunication Union (Geneva), June 2013
Norway was the first non-English-speaking country on the
net
Net or net may refer to:
Mathematics and physics
* Net (mathematics), a filter-like topological generalization of a sequence
* Net, a linear system of divisors of dimension 2
* Net (polyhedron), an arrangement of polygons that can be folded up ...
. In 1971
NORSAR
NORSAR or Norwegian Seismic Array was established in 1968 as part of the Norwegian- US agreement for the detection of earthquakes and nuclear explosions.
Description
Located at Kjeller, north of Oslo, NORSAR runs and maintains seismic arrays i ...
(Norwegian Seismic Array) at Kjeller just outside Oslo was connected by satellite to the SDAC (Seismic Data Analysis Center) in Virginia, US as part of
ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical fou ...
in order to monitor nuclear test-ban treaties with the Soviet Union.
See also
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Internet in Norway
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Media in Norway
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Norwegian Internet Exchange
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Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority
References
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