Communications
Telephones: 411,000 (1999 est.)
Telephone system: telecommunications
system is being modernized; 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 stations4 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
Radio broadcast stations: AM 17, FM 3, shortwave 3 (1998 est.)
Radios: 1 million (1998 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 12 (in addition, there is one low-power repeater) (1997)
Televisions: 550,000 (1998 est.)