Internet in Iceland

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Iceland is among the top countries in the world in terms of Internet deployment and use. 99.68% of Icelanders used the internet in 2021.[1]

As of June 2024, Iceland is listed 6th in the world for fixed access download speeds according to Speedtest.net at 242.03 Mbit/s.[2] Today, 93% citizens are connected to full-fibre (FTTH) networks,[3] with at least 1 Gbit/s speeds available to all and 10 Gbit/s available to most.[4] Iceland has 168.2 Tbit/s of submarine bandwidth capacity through 4 cables. 97% of Icelanders used an electronic ID in 2022 to identify themselves online.[5]

Míla (formerly part of Síminn, former incumbent) operates the largest national trunk network, copper and GPON (FTTH) fibre access network. Ljósleiðarinn, originally a fully municipal owned network, operates a competing national trunk and bitsteam access PTP fibre network. Smaller local ISPs operate locally. Neyðarlínan (112), is the current government-owned universal service provider. Síminn, Vodafone, NOVA and Hringdu are the Iargest ISPs in Iceland.

ISNIC is the Icelandic domain registry for its country-code top level domain, .is. It is a member of the RIPE NCC, Europe's regional Internet registry. ISNIC also operate Iceland's only open-policy internet exchange point, the Reykjavík Internet Exchange (RIX). CERT-IS manages Iceland's national cyber-security.

  1. ^ "World Bank Open Data". World Bank Open Data. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
  2. ^ "Iceland's Mobile and Broadband Internet Speeds". Speedtest Global Index. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Ljósleiðarinn er á leiðinni til Reykjanesbæjar". Ljósleiðarinn (in Icelandic). 2020-04-15. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  5. ^ Auðkennisappið, rafræn skilríki - Tengjum ríkið 2022, 29 September 2022, retrieved 2023-06-15. 3:20 minute mark.