page_title: Telecommunications in Lebanon
section_title: Telephone
hierarchical_section_title: Telecommunications in Lebanon / Telephone
caption_attribution_description: English: Submarine communication cable linking france and india
context_page_description: Lebanon possesses a number of systems of telecommunication. The country code and top-level domain for Lebanon is ".lb".
context_section_description: There are 1,816,262 landlines giving a relatively high fixed line penetration rate, along with 4,890,534 mobile telephones in use in Lebanon. The telephone system was severely damaged during the civil war but was completely rebuilt and revamped. The systems that provide the infrastructure for the telephone network are, domestically, microwave radio relay stations and cables, and internationally, two Intelsat satellite-earth stations, a microwave radio relay station to Syria and three international undersea fiber optic cables: I-ME-WE, CADMOS (to Cyprus), and BERYTAR (to Syria).
caption: The I-ME-WE (India-Middle East-Western Europe) submarine communication cable linking Tripoli, Lebanon with other countries.
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