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Communications
Telephones: 1,312,596 (1999 est.)
Telephone system:
domestic: good system composed of open-wire lines, cables, and
microwave radio relay links; principal centers are Casablanca
and Rabat; secondary centers are Fes, Marrakech, Oujda, Tangier,
and Tetouan
international: 5 submarine cables; satellite earth stations—2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; microwave radio relay
to Gibraltar, Spain, and Western Sahara; coaxial cable and microwave
radio relay to Algeria; participant in Medarabtel
Radio broadcast stations: AM 22, FM 7, shortwave 5 (1998 est.)
Radios: 5.1 million (1998 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 26 (in addition, there are 35 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions: 1.21 million (1998 est.)