Libya Communications 2008, CIA World Factbook




Libya Communications 2008 https://allcountries.org/wfb2008/libya/libya_communications.html SOURCE: 2008 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

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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:
24 (2007)

Internet users:
232,000 (2005)

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