Basic Country Facts

Communications Telephones: 270,100 (1987 est.) Telephone system: domestic: good system composed of open-wire lines, cables, and microwave radio relay links; principal centers are Casablanca and Rabat; secondary centers are Fes, Marrakech, Oujda, Tangier, and Tetouan international: 5 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Gibraltar, Spain, and Western Sahara; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria; participant in Medarabtel Radio broadcast stations: AM 20, FM 7, shortwave 0 Radios: 5.527 million (1992 est.) Television broadcast stations: 26 (repeaters 26) Televisions: 1.21 million (1993 est.)