Telecommunications in Iceland is a diversified market.

Submarine connectivity

Current internet and telephone services rely on

submarine communications cables A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried tel ...

for external traffic, with a total capacity of 60.2Tbit/s

Current

FARICE-1 FARICE-1 is a submarine communications cable connecting Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Scotland. The cable has been in use since January 2004 and is 100% owned by the Icelandic state. The cable had an initial design capacity of 720 Gbit/s and i ...

, 2 fiber pairs, with lit 11 Tbit/s to the United Kingdom and the Faroe Islands laid in 2003 * DANICE, 4 fiber pairs, with lit 36.4 Tbit/s to Denmark, laid in 2009. *

Greenland Connect Greenland Connect is a submarine communications cable system that connects Canada, Greenland, and Iceland. The cable contains two fibre pairs specified for 128*10 Gbit/s wavelength each. Initial lit capacity is 1*10 Gbit/s for each fibre pair. Two ...

, 2 fiber pairs, with lit 12.8 Tbit/s to Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and Greenland, laid in 2009.

Former

* CANTAT-3, 3 fiber pairs, with capacity of 7.5 Gbit/s to Denmark, Germany, Faroe Islands and Canada (1994-2009) * SCOTICE, coaxial cable, to Faroe Islands onto Scotland, 32 telephone circuits (1961-1987) * ICECAN, coaxial cable, to Greenland onto Canada, 24 telephone circuits (1961-1987) * Great Northern Telegraph Co., Seyðisfjörður to Faroe Islands onto Shetland Islands to UK (1906-1962)

Under Construction

* IRIS, 6 fiber pairs, with 108 Tbit/s initial capacity to Galway, Ireland, due to be laid summer 2022.

Services

Internet

Data centres

* THOR Data Center ehf * DataCell ehf *

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Internet service providers

The largest Internet service providers in Iceland: # Síminn (Síminn hf) # Vodafone Iceland ( Sýn hf) #

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(Nova hf) # Hringiðan (Hringiðan ehf / Vortex Inc) # Hringdu (Hringdu ehf)

Internet hosting service

Iceland has numerous internet hosting services: * (1984 ehf) *

Advania Advania is a Nordic information technology service corporation headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The company is the largest in its field in Iceland and the 9th largest in the Nordic countries. Advania has corporate clients in the public and pr ...

(Advania ehf) * (Davíð og Golíat ehf)
FlokiNET
(FlokiNET ehf) * Síminn (Síminn hf) * (Netmiðlar ehf) * (Netvistun ehf) * (Nethönnun ehf)
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(TechSupport á Íslandi ehf) * (Tölvuþjónustan Geymir sf) * Vodafone Iceland ( Sýn hf) * Vortex (Hringiðan ehf)

Internet exchange point

Iceland has an internet exchange point called the Reykjavik Internet Exchange (RIX).

Mail

Print

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Morgunblaðið ''Morgunblaðið'' (, ''The Morning Paper'') is an Icelandic newspaper. ''Morgunblaðið''s website, mbl.is, is the most popular website in Iceland. History ''Morgunblaðið'' was founded by Vilhjálmur Finsen and Ólafur Björnsson, brother of ...

Free daily newspapers

Fréttablaðið ''Fréttablaðið'' ( en, The Newspaper) is a free Icelandic newspaper. It is distributed five days per week. History and profile ''Fréttablaðið'' was established in 2001. It was originally owned primarily by the media group '' 365''. The pape ...

Weekly and bi-weekly Newspapers

* DV *

Viðskiptablaðið ''Viðskiptablaðið'' (English: ''The Business Paper'') is an Icelandic newspaper focusing on business, economy, and national affairs. History The paper was founded in 1994 as a weekly paper on business and economy affairs. Its first editor was ...

* Bændablaðið *

Stundin ''Stundin'' is an Icelandic bi-weekly newspaper known for investigative journalism. It takes the form of both an online newspaper and a news magazine. It was founded in 2015 by former staff of DV after a hostile takeover of the paper. It was fun ...

English Language Newspapers

* The Reykjavík Grapevine

Radio

Public broadcasters:

RÚV * Rás 1 * Rás 2

= Commercial broadcasters

= * Bylgjan * FM 957

Telephone

Landline

As of 2018 there are 75,716 landlines in use in Iceland of which 73,361 are PSTN. ISDN 2B and 30B subscriptions make up 1,971 and 384 respectively. The number of landlines in Iceland has been slowly decreasing since their peak in 2001 at 196,528. Meanwhile, the number of VoIP subscriptions have been rising, from 58,311 in 2016 to 76,122 in 2018. 2018 was the first year that VoIP subscriptions surpassed PSTN subscriptions. Síminn, the operator of the

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network has indicated that a complete shut down of the POTS network is ongoing and is due to be completed in 2022. Existing landline customers will be transitioned over to VoIP services. Source:

Statistics Iceland Statistics Iceland ( is, Hagstofa Íslands) is the main official institute providing statistics on the nation of Iceland. It was created by the Althing in 1913, began operations in 1914 and became an independent government agency under the Prim ...

statice.is

Mobile

As of 2010 there are 341,077 active GSM ( 2G) and UMTS ( 3G) subscriptions in use in Iceland. In 2010, all

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( 1G) networks were shut down. Nova was first to offer 4G followed by Síminn. 5G services were launched in 2020 by Nova, followed by Síminn. 2G services are due to be shut down in 2024 and 3G in 2025. Source:

statice.is

Telephone calling

Source:

statice.is

Text messaging

Telephone numbers

There are no

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s in Iceland, and all telephone numbers have seven digits. The international dialling code is +354. Due to the Icelandic naming system, people are listed by their first name in the telephone directory, and not by their last name (which is usually

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, or, rarely, a

matronym A matronymic is a personal name based on the given name of one's mother, grandmother, or any female ancestor. It is the female equivalent of a patronymic. Around the world, matronymic surnames are far less common than patronymic surnames. In som ...

Television

Television in Iceland began in September 1966. Source:

statice.is

References

External links

Reykjavik Internet Exchange
{{Telecommunications in Europe