Exchange rates:
Libyan dinars per US dollar - 1.2929 (2003), 1.2707 (2002), 0.6051
(2001), 0.4994 (2000), 0.3936 (1999)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Libya
Telephones - main lines in use:
750,000 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
100,000 (2003)
Telephone system:
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)