Egypt Telecommunications Profile 2002

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)

Radios

20.5 million (1997)

Radio broadcast stations

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

Televisions

7.7 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations

98 (September 1995)

Internet country code

.eg

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

50 (2000)

Internet users

600,000 (2002)