Internet in Iceland

[3] Míla offers a XG-PON/GPON network with a minimum flat rate delivered at 1 Gbit/s, and additional access tiers of 2.5, 5 and 10 Gbit/s.

Ljósleiðarinn also has 100% fibre coverage in smaller towns such as Reykjanesbær,[4] Akranes, Þorlákshöfn, Hella, Selfoss and Hvolsvöllur.

The government has engaged in a programme called Ísland Ljóstengt running from 2016 to 2022 which funded FTTH deployment to 5,500 rural locations.

[9] Many rural towns in Iceland dependent on VDSL and were out of the scope of previous funding as it only applied to farms and extra-urban locations.

[11] As of 2022 there are also 64,000 active data-only 4G/5G subscriptions, mainly used for second homes and Mi-Fi devices, as well as serving as an alternative to fixed-line DSL/fibre services.

[5] Starlink began offering Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite internet access in Iceland in February 2023, although a local gateway has not been established.

[17] Most of Iceland's growth in international bandwidth is due to data center investment in the country, the domestic internet market is fairly saturated.

As Iceland is geographically situated in the mid-atlantic, it has shorter ping times to locations to Europe than North America.

The five Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland—are central players in the European battle between file sharers, rights holders, and Internet service providers (ISPs).

While each country determines its own destiny, the presence of the European Union (EU) is felt in all legal controversies and court cases.

[32] Internet service providers in Iceland use filters to block Web sites distributing child pornography.

[34][35] Neither bill was passed by the Icelandic parliament and a new government has since been formed following the parliamentary election held on 27 April 2013.

[37][38] Other members of the Reykjavik Internet Exchange did not institute the null route, but both Vodafone and Síminn blocked it at their Icelandic routers.

ringulreid.org was a 4chan-like image board in the Icelandic language which had been making the news for cyber-bullying, child porn and similar material.

[42] The administrators of the site had rejected these accusations, citing their strict policies of banning users who posted child pornography.

[43] ringulreid.org had been set up after a similar site, handahof.org, had been voluntarily closed down by its operator on request of the Iceland Capital Police following their investigation into the matter.

As of 30 September 2010 these were the private E-Mail gateway ns1.bighost.lv, the cosmetics manufacturer saulesfabrika.com, the construction company timbersolution.com, the printing house veiters.com and the boilerplate site ventus.lv.