Telephones - main lines in use:
3.168 million (1996)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
380,000 (1999)
Telephone system:
large system by Third World standards but inadequate for present requirements and undergoing extensive upgrading; Internet access available
domestic:
principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah[?], Ismailia[?], Suez, and Tanta[?] are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay
international:
satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat[?], and 1 Inmarsat; 5 coaxial submarine cables; tropospheric scatter to Sudan; microwave radio relay to Israel; a participant in Medarabtel[?] and a signatory to Project Oxygen[?] (a global submarine fiber-optic cable[?] system)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 42 (plus 15 repeater stations), FM 14, shortwave 3 (1999)
Radios:
20.5 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
51 (September 1995)
Televisions:
7.7 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
31 (1999)
Country code: EG
- See also : Egypt
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