Communications in Norway
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Telephones - main lines in use: 2 228 565 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 4.2 million (2003)
Telephone system:
high-quality domestic and international telephone, telegraph, and telex services
domestic:
domestic satellite system
international:
2 buried coaxial cable systems; 4 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations - NA Eutelsat, NA Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note - Norway shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM at least 650, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios: 4.03 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 209 (1997)
Televisions: 2.03 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 21 (1999)
Broadband Internet Service Subscribers:
396,000 (18% of households) (2003)
of which 78% are ADSL subscriptions
Country code (Top level domain): NO