Short facts about communications in Libya

Telephones - main lines in use:

380,000 (1996)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

NA

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 17, FM 4, shortwave 3 (1998)

Radios:

1.35 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

12 (plus one low-power repeater) (1998)

Televisions:

730,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.ly

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

1 (2000)

Internet users:

7,500 (2000)

Source: World Factbook