Short facts about communications in Egypt

Telephones - main lines in use:

3,971,500 (December 1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

380,000 (1999)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  large system; underwent extensive upgrading during 1990s and is reasonably modern; Internet access and cellular service are available domestic:  principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah, Ismailia, Suez, and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay international:  satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat; 5 coaxial submarine cables; tropospheric scatter to Sudan; microwave radio relay to Israel; a participant in Medarabtel and a signatory to Project Oxygen (a global submarine fiber-optic cable system)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 42 (plus 15 repeaters), FM 14, shortwave 3 (1999)

Radios:

20.5 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

98 (September 1995)

Televisions:

7.7 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.eg

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

50 (2000)

Internet users:

300,000 (2000)

Source: World Factbook