Telephone
96% of households have at least one main line telephone. 103% of the population has a cell phone; 15% have more than one.
- Telephones - main lines in use: 622,600 (as of 2003)
- Telephones - mobile cellular: 6,250,000 (as of September 2010)
- Digital Radio Trunking:100,000 (Unofficial, Nov'07)
In Mid 2004, XPress Telecom was launched as the country's digital radio trunking operator.
- Telephone system: The service has improved recently with the increased use of digital switching equipment, but better access to the telephone system is needed in some rural areas and easier access to pay telephones is needed by the urban public.
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- domestic: Microwave radio relay transmission and coaxial and fiber-optic cable are employed on trunk lines; considerable use is made of mobile cellular systems; Internet service is available.
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- international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals; fiber-optic cable to Saudi Arabia and microwave radio relay link with Egypt and Syria; connection to international submarine cable FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); participant in MEDARABTEL; international links total about 4,000.
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