The first connection to the British Isles reached in Iceland in 1906 by the. Around the same time telephone communication was opened between and nearby. By 1911 a telephone line connected Reykjavik in the west of Iceland to Seyðisfjörður in the east via in the north. A line to the was constructed a few years later, and by 1929 a line along the south coast of the island connected Reykjavik to Seyðis.