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Egypt
Index
In addition to its radio and television facilities, which were
well developed, Egypt had a domestic telephone system that in 1984
counted approximately 600,000 telephones, most of them located in
Cairo or Alexandria
(see The Political Role of the Media
, ch. 4).
Although improvement to the system was under way in the early
1990s, domestic service was still unreliable. The quality of
international service was better, as international calls traveled
over a variety of high-quality links: submarine cables to Lebanon
and to southern Europe; radio-relay links with Libya and Sudan; and
a ground satellite station just south of Cairo with two antennas
for worldwide telephone, television, and data transmissions. Egypt
was to be a focal part of the Arab Satellite (Arabsat)
communications network linking the various Arab states, scheduled
to be inaugurated in 1991.
Data as of December 1990
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