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750,000 (2003)

100,000 (2003)

general assessment: 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: country code - 218; 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)

1.35 million (1997)

AM 16, FM 3, shortwave 3 (2002)

730,000 (1997)

12 (plus one low-power repeater) (1999)

.ly

67 (2003)

160,000 (2003)

1 (2002)

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