EgyptCommunications

Telephones - main lines in use:	9.6 million (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	8,583,940 (2005)
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: country code - 20; 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
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 hosts:	3,401 (2004)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	50 (2000)
Internet users:	4.2 million (2005)

More about Egypt:

The World Factbook 2005, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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