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Egypt air recently teamed up with other airlines to form Arabesk. Arab carriers are facing stiff competition with international airlines and alliances such as One World or Star Alliance. The new alliance among the state-owned airlines, dubbed Arabesk, includes Egypt Air, Gulf Air, Middle East Airlines, Oman Air, Yemen Air, Tunis Air, Royal Jordanian Airlines, and Saudi Arabian Airlines.

Egypt Telecom facilities is improving at an alarming rate. "To invest in the technological industry is to invest without the least hesitation in Egypt's future, particularly in view of the fact that the promising beginnings we have already seen reaffirm that Egypt has the capability of catching up with this significant development." - President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak of Egypt

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The government has struggled to ready the economy for the new millennium through economic reform and massive investment in communications and physical infrastructure, much financed from U.S. foreign aid (an average of 2.2 billion dollars per year)

Information Telecommunications Technology ( ICT ) of Egypt

Telephones - main lines in use in Egypt:	9.6 million (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	8,583,940 (2005)
Telephone system of Egyptians:	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: country code - 20; 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
Egyptian Radio broadcast stations:	AM 42 (plus 15 repeaters), FM 14, shortwave 3 (1999)
Radios reach by Egyptians:	20.5 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:	98 (September 1995)
Televisions access of Egyptians:	7.7 million (1997)
Internet country code for Egyptians:	.eg
Internet hosts in Egypt:	3,401 (2004)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) of Egyptians:	50 (2000)
Egyptian Internet users:	4.2 million (2005)

Transport Facilities in Egypt

Railways in Egypt:	total: 5,063 km standard gauge: 5,063 km 1.435-m gauge (62 km electrified) (2003)
Highways for Egyptians:	total: 64,000 km paved: 49,984 km unpaved: 14,016 km (1999 est.)
Waterways for Egyptians:	3,500 km note: includes Nile River, Lake Nasser, Alexandria-Cairo Waterway, and numerous smaller canals in delta; Suez Canal (193.5 km including approaches) navigable by oceangoing vessels drawing up to 17.68 m (2004)
Pipelines Egypt:	condensate 289 km; condensate/gas 94 km; gas 6,115 km; liquid petroleum gas 852 km; oil 5,032 km; oil/gas/water 36 km; refined products 246 km (2004)
Ports and harbors of Egyptians:	Alexandria, Al Ghardaqah, Aswan, Asyut, Bur Safajah, Damietta, Marsa Matruh, Port Said, Suez
Merchant marine of Egyptians:	total: 77 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,194,696 GRT/1,754,815 DWT by type: bulk carrier 14, cargo 34, container 2, passenger/cargo 5, petroleum tanker 14, roll on/roll off 8 foreign-owned: 10 (Denmark 1, Greece 6, Lebanon 2, Turkey 1) registered in other countries: 34 (2005)
Airports in Egypt:	87 (2004 est.)
Egyptian Airports - with paved runways:	total: 72 over 3,047 m: 13 2,438 to 3,047 m: 38 1,524 to 2,437 m: 17 under 914 m: 4 (2004 est.)
Egyptian Airports - with unpaved runways:	total: 15 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 5 under 914 m: 7 (2004 est.)
Heliports of Egypt:	2 (2004 est.)

Source: CIA fact book and Egypt Government Agencies

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