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| Libya - Communications (Facts) |
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| Telephones - main lines in use: |
483,000 (2006) |
| Telephones - mobile cellular: |
3.928 million (2006) |
| Telephone system: |
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) |
| Radio broadcast stations: |
AM 16, FM 3, shortwave 3 (2001) |
| Television broadcast stations: |
12 (plus 1 repeater) (1999) |
| Internet country code: |
.ly |
| Internet hosts: |
31 (2006) |
| Internet users: |
232,000 (2005) |
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