Føroya Tele P/f (FT) is the public telecommunications company in the Faroe Islands.

Ólavi á Heygum from Vestmanna established the connection between his place and the capital Tórshavn.

In 1961 the situation improved with the SCOT-ICE submarine cable between Scotland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland (decommissioned in 1988).

In 1993/94 the transatlantic optical fiber cable CANTAT-3 was laid from Canada to Europe (Great Britain, Germany and Denmark).

Føroya Tele played a leading role in getting the Shetland Islands and Orkney the first broadband access to the Internet - long before the British BT Group was able to do this.

[1] In 1998, the state-owned Telefonverk Føroya Løgtings was transferred to a publicly owned limited company.

Together with the newspaper Sosialurin, Føroya Tele runs the internet portal portal.fo, which is the most visited Faroese website.