ADSL became available to private consumers around late 2000.

Depending on the provider, offered speeds range from 512/128 kbit/s to as high as 8/1 Mbit/s for ADSL, while ADSL2+ is slowly becoming available with speeds reaching up to 24/1.5 Mbit/s.

Prices vary constantly due to fierce competition between providers, but prices can be found as low as 195 NOK

Norwegian krone

The krone is the currency of Norway and its dependent territories. The plural form is kroner . It is subdivided into 100 øre. The ISO 4217 code is NOK, although the common local abbreviation is kr. The name translates into English as "crown"...

 (US$30) per month for the most basic ADSL connections, while ADSL2+ is somewhat pricier, it starts at around 499,-(NextGenTel) NOK (US$82) per month. This is in addition to DSL equipment rental and installation fees.

Some major ISPs that provide DSL services in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

:

• Telenor
  Telenor
  Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, working predominantly under the Telenor brand...
  
   - http://www.telenor.no/
• NextGenTel
  NextGenTel
  NextGenTel is a Norwegian telecommunications company located in Bergen , Trondheim, Oslo, Stavanger, and Kristiansand. They offer ADSL, SHDSL, ADSL2+, VDSL2, IP TV, IP Telephony, and are WiMax solutions...
  
   - http://www.nextgentel.no/
• Tele2
  Tele2
  Tele2 AB is a major European telecommunications operator, with about 34 million customers in 11 countries. It serves as a fixed-line telephone operator, cable television provider, mobile phone operator and Internet service provider.- Overview :...
  
   - http://www.tele2.no
• Ventelo - http://www.ventelo.no/

There is also a flurry of smaller and local providers all over the country that offer competitive DSL services.

• Nordcall Bredbånd - http://www.nordcall.no
• Mimer Bredbånd - http://www.mimer.no
• Eidsiva Bredbånd - http://www.eidsiva.net

Cable broadband was available before DSL access around 2000.

Cable ISPs:

• Get (formerly known as UPC/Chello) - http://www.get.no/
• Canal Digital
  Canal Digital
  Canal Digital is a Scandinavian television distributor and internet service provider that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay-TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor...
  
   - http://www.canaldigital.no/
• And many other SMATV network like BOF AS - http://www.bof-nett.no/

Triple play

Triple play (telecommunications)

In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of two bandwidth-intensive services, high-speed Internet access and television, and a less bandwidth-demanding service, telephone, over a single broadband connection. Triple play focuses on a combined business...

 solutions over optical fiber

Optical fiber

An optical fiber is a flexible, transparent fiber made of a pure glass not much wider than a human hair. It functions as a waveguide, or "light pipe", to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber. The field of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of...

are increasing in availability and popularity.

As of the time this is written (May 2007), all known services include unlimited download with no restrictions.

External links

• www.telepriser.no - The Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority maintains an updated list of prices and features of all Norwegian broadband providers (along with other telecommunications service providers).