Vodafone Iceland is an Icelandic

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company owned by Sýn. Although the company carries the Vodafone brand and trademark,

Vodafone Group Vodafone Group plc () is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office and global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It predominantly operates services in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. , Vodafon ...

owns no interest in the company, but rather franchises the brand and associated advertising styles. Vodafone Iceland offers

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( 2G/ 3G/ 4G),

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services as well as

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VDSL Very high-speed digital subscriber line (VDSL) and very high-speed digital subscriber line 2 (VDSL2) are digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies providing data transmission faster than the earlier standards of asymmetric digital subscriber line ...

and

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Internet services to individuals and companies. It also provides a managed multicast

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and

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services over

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television,

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. Its telecommunications branch is a franchise of the

Vodafone Vodafone Group Public limited company, plc () is a British Multinational corporation, multinational Telephone company, telecommunications company. Its registered office and Headquarters, global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It ...

network, formerly known as Og Vodafone and from 5 October 2006 as Vodafone Iceland. Vodafone Iceland is the first partner network to hold the Vodafone brand. The company is registered in Iceland under the name Fjarskipti hf. Vodafone Iceland previously ran Digital Iceland, the MMDS broadcasting system for 365 corporation, from the 22 November 2006, until it was closed in 2017. In 2014, the Icelandic public broadcaster

RÚV Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV) (pronounced or ) ( en, 'The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service') is Iceland's national public-service broadcasting organization. Operating from studios in the country's capital, Reykjavík, as well as regional cent ...

, signed an agreement with Vodafone Iceland to run a shared system of DVB-T/T2 multiplexes to serve all of Iceland, facilitating the

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. Vodafone Iceland operates the digital transmission system by contract to 2028 and all

channels are

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the FTA Receiver, appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring ...

, while customers can buy a pay-tv package to access commercial channels by use of a CI Access Module, however it's IPTV service is more popular. The main competitor of Vodafone Iceland is

Síminn Síminn hf. (Iceland Telecom), previously named ''Landssíminn'' and ''Póstur og Sími,'' is an Icelandic telecommunications company. It offers communication services for both private and corporate clients, including mobile (2G/3G/4G/5G), landline ...

. Vodafone Iceland also operates an

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in cooperation with

, called Múli-IXP.

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* Vodafone Telecommunications companies of Iceland Telecommunications companies established in 2003 Internet service providers of Iceland Companies based in Reykjavík 2003 establishments in Iceland {{Iceland-company-stub

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