Communications in Denmark
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Telephones - main lines in use: 3.679 million (2000)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2.6 million (1999)
Telephone system:
excellent telephone and telegraph services
domestic:
buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form trunk network, 4 cellular radio communications systems
international:
18 submarine fiber-optic cables linking Denmark with Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Canada; satellite earth stations - 6 Intelsat, 10 Eutelsat, 1 Orion, 1 Inmarsat (Blaavand-Atlantic-East); note - the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) share the Danish earth station and the Eik, Norway, station for world-wide Inmarsat access
Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 355, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios: 6.02 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 42 (plus 44 repeaters) (September 1995)
Televisions: 3.121 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 12 (1999)