Libya: Communications

Communications

Libya

Telephones - main lines in use:	500,000 (1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	20,000 (1998)
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: 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 (2002)
Radios:	1.35 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:	12 (plus one low-power repeater) (1999)
Televisions:	730,000 (1997)
Internet country code:	.ly
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	1 (2002)
Internet users:	20,000 (2001)