Some 1500 workers held a strike at the Media City, a center for television and movie production in a satellite city in the desert outside the capital.
By 2030, when greater Cairo's population is predicted to top 30 million, the government estimates that half of those residents will live not in Cairo proper, but in a satellite city.
Uganda's Daily Monitor told its readers that the prestigious Makerere University - the country's oldest - will be sold to developers planning to build a satellite city on the site, forcing its 30, 000 students to find places at other universities.
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When they're not fighting city traffic in Cadillac suvs, middle-class Saudis frequent gleaming shopping malls lined with designer brand names from the U.S. In a country where women are required to wear full-length abayas in public, you can catch Sex and the City on satellite TV every Friday night.
Urban migration is also prompting some local governments to provide better services to newcomers, as well as extending city services into satellite towns.
Even locals and compass equipped cartographers lose their way in millennia-old Medina streets flanked by some 3, 000 derbs (winding alleys), which predate city planning and defy satellite mapping.
Pre-planning extends to knowing the physical location of the airport you fly into, too, as it relates to the city center, says Malin, who's made the mistake of choosing a cheaper flight into a satellite airport that required more transit time to reach the city center.
Rajdeep Sardesai, a leading news presenter and editor since the 1990s, says India now has 365 round-the-clock satellite channels, as well as many city-based and cable ones.
There are no land lines and now the city is trying to hook up a satellite phone service.
Since the streets of New Orleans sit mostly below sea level, it would very likely become a satellite submarine as the storm water surges into the city.
These satellite cities were expected to absorb half the growth between 1998 and 2017, but their distance from the city center, as well their lack of services and opportunities, make them unattractive and still unaffordable for the majority of Egyptians.
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