Short facts about communications in Albania

Telephones - main lines in use:

87,000 (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

3,100 (1999)

Telephone system:

general assessment:  Albania has the poorest telephone service in Europe with fewer than two telephones per 100 inhabitants; it is doubtful that every village has telephone service domestic:  obsolete wire system; no longer provides a telephone for every village; in 1992, following the fall of the communist government, peasants cut the wire to about 1,000 villages and used it to build fences international:  inadequate; international traffic carried by microwave radio relay from the Tirana exchange to Italy and Greece

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 16, FM 3, shortwave 2 (1999)

Radios:

810,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

9 (plus 264 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions:

405,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.al

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

7 (2000)

Internet users:

2,500 (2000)

Source: World Factbook