general assessment: telecommunications
system is being modernized; mobile cellular telephone system became
operational in 1996 domestic: microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, cellular,
tropospheric scatter, and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth
stations international: country code - 218; satellite earth stations - 4
Intelsat, NA Arabsat, and NA Intersputnik; submarine cables to France
and Italy; microwave radio relay to Tunisia and Egypt; tropospheric
scatter to Greece; participant in Medarabtel (1999)
Radio broadcast
stations:
AM 16, FM 3, shortwave 3 (2002)
Radios:
1.35 million (1997)
Television broadcast
stations:
12 (plus one low-power repeater) (1999)
Televisions:
730,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.ly
Internet hosts:
67 (2003)
Internet Service
Providers (ISPs):
1 (2002)
Internet users:
160,000 (2003)
Transportation
Libya
Railways:
0 km note: Libya is working on 7 lines totaling 2,757 km of 1.435-m
gauge track; it hopes to open a 191 km line by the end of 2004 (2003)
Highways:
total: 83,200 km paved: 47,590 km unpaved: 35,610 km (1999 est.)
Pipelines:
condensate 225 km; gas 3,196 km; oil 6,872 km
(2003)
Ports and harbors:
Al Khums, Banghazi, Darnah, Marsa al Burayqah,
Misratah, Ra's Lanuf, Tobruk, Tripoli, Zuwarah
Merchant marine:
total: 20 ships (1,000 GRT or over)
129,627 GRT/105,110 DWT by type: cargo 8, liquefied gas 3, petroleum tanker 1, roll
on/roll off 4, short-sea/passenger 4 foreign-owned: Algeria 1, Kuwait 1 (2003 est.)
Airports:
140 (2003 est.)
Airports - with paved
runways:
total: 60 over 3,047 m: 23 2,438 to 3,047 m: 6 914 to 1,523 m: 5 under 914 m: 3 (2003 est.) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 23
Airports - with
unpaved runways:
total: 80 under 914 m: 18 (2003 est.) over 3,047 m: 5 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 41 1,524 to 2,437 m: 14