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Communications
Telephones: 77,215 (1983 est.)
Telephone system: large, well-equipped
system by African standards, but barely adequate and poorly maintained
by modern standards
domestic: consists of microwave radio relay, cable, radiotelephone
communications, tropospheric scatter, and a domestic satellite
system with 14 earth stations
international: satellite earth stations—1 Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean) and 1 Arabsat
Radio broadcast stations: AM 11, FM 1, shortwave 1 (1998 est.)
Radios: 5.75 million (1998 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 3 (1997)
Televisions: 250,000 (1998 est.)