Libya: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 632,000 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 10 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 9.918 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 155 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: Libya's civil war has disrupted its telecommunications sector, but much of its infrastructure remains superior to that in most other African countries domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular service generally adequate, but pressure to rebuild damaged infrastructure growing international: country code - 218; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat, NA Arabsat, and NA Intersputnik; submarine cable to France and Italy; microwave radio relay to Tunisia and Egypt; tropospheric scatter to Greece; participant in Medarabtel (2015) |
| Broadcast media | state-funded and private TV stations; some provinces operate local TV stations; pan-Arab satellite TV stations are available; state-funded radio (2012) |
| Internet country code | .ly |
| Internet users | total: 1.219 million percent of population: 19% (July 2015 est.) |