Communications in Libya
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Telephones - main lines in use: 500,000 (1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 20,000 (1998)
Telephone system:
telecommunications system is being modernized; mobile cellular telephone system became operational in 1996
domestic:
microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, cellular, tropospheric scatter, and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations
international:
satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat, NA Arabsat, and NA Intersputnik; submarine cables to France and Italy; microwave radio relay to Tunisia and Egypt; tropospheric scatter to Greece; participant in Medarabtel (1999)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 16, FM 3, shortwave 3 (2002)
Radios: 1.35 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 12 (plus one low-power repeater) (1999)
Televisions: 730,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (2002)
Internet users: 20,000 (2001)
Country code (Top-level domain): LY
- See also : Libya