Main City Codes:
Antelias 4, Baabda 5, Beirut 1, Jezine 7, Jounieh (Juniyah) 9, Saida 7, Tripoli 6, Zahle (Zahlah) 8
Mobile Phone Codes:
Cellis GSM 900 3, LibanCell GSM 900 3
Communications: Lebanon
- Telephones - main lines in use:
- 700,000 (1999)
- Telephones - mobile cellular:
- 580,000 (1999)
- Telephone system:
- general assessment: telecommunications system severely damaged by civil war; rebuilding well underway
- domestic: primarily microwave radio relay and cable
- international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean) (erratic operations); coaxial cable to Syria; microwave radio relay to Syria but inoperable beyond Syria to Jordan; 3 submarine coaxial cables
- Internet country code:
- .lb
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
- 22 (2000)
- Internet users:
- 300,000 (2001)
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