Open menu Close menu Open Search Close search Open sharebox Close sharebox
ABC logo





. Index

. 1996 Index

. Flag

. Geography

. People

. Government

. Economy

. Transportation

. Commun'tions

. Defense

. Geo Names

. Feedback

===========

Ad

Egypt Communications 1996

    • Telephone system:
      CIA data is apparently wrong. See correction forllowing parentheses.
      (600,000 telephones; 11 telephones/1,000 persons; large system by Third World standards but inadequate for present requirements and undergoing extensive upgrading)

      The number of phone lines is not 600K but rather 3.5 million
      Contributed by Ahmed M. ElHefnawy, Ph.D. Asst. Professor, Systems & Biomedical Engineering Department, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt Office: Partner, Marketing Information Systems , 4 Emarat ElYamany ST, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt, 11211

        local:
        NA

        intercity:
        principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah, Ismailia Suez, and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay

        international:
        2 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean), 1 ARABSAT, and 1 INMARSAT earth station; 5 coaxial submarine cables, microwave troposcatter (to Sudan), and microwave radio relay (to Libya, Israel, and Jordan)

    • Radio:

        broadcast stations:
        AM 39, FM 6, shortwave 0

        radios:
        NA

    • Television:

        broadcast stations:
        41

        televisions:
        NA






Thank you for making this an award winning site

Please put this page in your BOOKMARKS - - - - -



ITA Home Page
 The IMMIGRATION Superhighway Feedback

ITA WWWDesign
Flags of all Countries
Yahoo search

Revised 13-August-1997

Copyright © 1995-2020 ITA (all rights reserved)