Føroya Tele
| Føroya Tele
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| legal form | Party day |
| founding | 1905 |
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Hoyvík , Faroe Islands
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| Number of employees | 230 |
| Branch | telecommunications |
| Website | ft.fo |
Føroya Tele P / f [ førja ˈteːle ] (FT) is the public telecommunications company in the Faroe Islands . At the same time, it is one of the largest companies in the country with 230 employees and an annual turnover of around 40 million euros. The seat is in Hoyvík in the municipality of Tórshavn .
In 2005 the company had exactly 19,286 landline and 32,763 mobile phone customers (out of a population of around 48,000).
history
In 1905 the first telephone line was installed in the Faroe Islands. Ólavi á Heygum from Vestmanna established the connection between his place and the capital Tórshavn . The following year Løgting took over this management. The state telephone company was given the Danish name Færøernes Amtskommunes Telefonvæsen (telephone system of the Faroe Islands) and later Telefonverk Føroya Løgtings (telephone company of the Faroese Lögtings).
In 1930 all parts of the Faroe Islands were connected to the telephone network. After Suðuroy there was initially only a radio link with the rest of the country. In 1953 Tórshavn got self-election, which was introduced nationwide by 1978. From 1954 there was a radio link with Denmark, but only on one channel. In 1961 the situation improved with the SCOT-ICE submarine cable between Scotland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland (decommissioned in 1988).
In 1971, the SHEFA submarine cable to the Shetland Islands followed as a joint project between the Danish Post and Telegrafvæsenet and the British Postoffice . This enabled 480 simultaneous calls to be made abroad for the first time.
In 1987 the satellite reception system in Tórshavn was put into operation. The satellite radio was intended as a safeguard against disruptions in the cable network. Usually, however, the vast majority of conversations were over cables.
In 1993/94 the transatlantic fiber optic cable CANTAT-3 was laid from Canada to Europe (Great Britain, Germany and Denmark). Attention was paid to branches to Iceland and the Faroe Islands. The cable comes ashore in Tjørnuvík in the north of the island of Streymoy. From there, a 53 km long fiber optic cable was laid across the mountains to Tórshavn. In November 1994, the CANTAT-3 station on the Faroe Islands went into operation. This was the first time they were directly connected to the American continent.
The telephone network has been completely digitized since 1998 and there is a comprehensive GSM network for mobile telephony.
ADSL has also become widely available on small islands after the 2004 FARICE-1 cable went into operation between the Faroe Islands and Iceland, which extends to Scotland. Since then, the CANTAT-3 cable has only been used as a "backup" because it no longer meets today's data volume requirements.
In the summer of 2007 another undersea cable, SHEFA-2, was laid from the Faroe Islands to Scotland via Shetland and the Orkney . Føroya Tele played a leading role in providing the Shetland Islands and Orkney with the first broadband access to the Internet - long before the British BT Group was able to realize this. Together with the FARICE cable, these two cables ensure the future connection of the islands with the outside world.
Today Føroya Tele says of itself that telecommunications are at a level that can be compared with the most progressive countries in Europe.
Politically, the company made headlines when it published a job advertisement during the dispute over the "homoparagraph" (prohibition of discrimination against homosexuals ) in the Faroe Islands at the end of 2006, in which it was stressed, without any particular legal obligation, that sexual orientation played no role in hiring.
Group
The state telephone company Føroya Løgtings was converted into a public limited company in 1998. The state government of the Faroe Islands owns 100% of the shares. A new telecommunications law was passed back in 1997, which opened the market to private providers.
On June 30, 2005, Føroya Tele was transformed into a group with several subsidiaries. These include the network operator FT Net (cable, radio, systems and buildings), FT Samskifti (telecommunications, customer service), the DVB-T provider Televarpið (since 2002, one of the first in the world) and Faroese Telecom International , which serve the international market should tap.
Together with the daily newspaper Sosialurin , Føroya Tele runs the portal.fo , by far the most visited Faroese website.
Roaming
In addition to the former monopoly Føroya Tele , the competitor Vodafone (formerly: Kall) has existed as a telecommunications provider since 1999 . Føroya Tele has roaming agreements with T-Mobile , Vodafone , E-Plus and O 2 .
Web links
- Official website (Faroese)
- Sona.fo (phone book, also with phone numbers of Faroers abroad)
Individual evidence
- ^ Scottish Executive: Connecting up the Northern Isles. In: PressZoom.com. PressZoom, January 17, 2007, accessed June 16, 2019 .