Main City Codes:
Alexandria 3, Aswan 97, Asyut 88, Benha 13, Beni Suef 82, Cairo 2, Damanhour 45, El Mahalla 43, El Mahallah (El Kubra) 40, El Mansoura 50, Fayoum 84, Hurghada 65, Ismailiya 64, Luxor 95, Menia 86, Port Said 66, Oena 96, Shebin El Korn 48, Sohag 93, Suez 62, Tanta 40, Zagazig 55
Mobile Phone Codes:
Click GSM (GSM 900) 010 + seven digits, MobiNil (GSM 900) 012 + seven digits
Communications: Egypt
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 3,971,500 (December 1998)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 380,000 (1999)
- Telephone system:
- 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: 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 and a signatory to Project Oxygen (a global submarine fiber-optic cable system)
- Internet country code:
- .eg
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 50 (2000)
- Internet users:
- 600,000 (2002)
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