Egypt: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 6,235,133 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 7 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 94.016 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 106 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: Telecom Egypt remains largely state owned; principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah, Ismailia, Suez, and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay domestic: largest fixed-line system in Africa and the Arab region; multiple mobile-cellular networks with a near 100-percent penetration of the market international: country code - 20; landing point for Aletar, the SEA-ME-WE-3 and SEA-ME-WE-4 submarine cable networks, Link Around the Globe (FLAG) Falcon and FLAG FEA; satellite earth stations - 4 (2 Intelsat - Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean, 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat) (2015) |
Broadcast media | mix of state-run and private broadcast media; state-run TV operates 2 national and 6 regional terrestrial networks, as well as a few satellite channels; about 20 private satellite channels and a large number of Arabic satellite channels are available via (2008) |
Internet country code | .eg |
Internet users | total: 31.767 million percent of population: 35.9% (July 2015 est.) |