Internet in Iceland

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.

As of May 2025, Iceland is listed 6th in the world for fixed access download speeds according to Speedtest.net at 297.5 Mbit/s. Today, 97.5% of households are connected to full-fibre (FTTH) networks, with at least 1 Gbit/s speeds available to all and 10 Gbit/s available to most. Iceland has 208.8 Tbit/s of international submarine bandwidth capacity through four cables.

Míla operates the largest national trunk network, copper and PON (FTTH) fibre access network. Ljósleiðarinn, originally a fully municipal owned network, operates a competing national trunk and PTP ethernet fibre network. Smaller local ISPs operate locally. Síminn, Sýn and Nova 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.

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