Communications In Albania Article Index for
Communications In 		Website Links For
Communications 		 

Information About

Communications In Albania
  CATEGORIES ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS IN ALBANIA
   
communications in albaniacommunications in albania
   
albania
   
communications by country
   
SHOPPER'S DELIGHT
 
Shop For:  
Department
Price Minimum:
Price Maximum:
      




TELEPHONE SYSTEM

  • Main lines in use: 255,000 (2003)

  • Mobile cellular: 1.1 million (2003)


''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 AND TELEVISION

  • Radio broadcast stations: AM 13, FM 4, shortwave 2 (2001)

  • --- Radios: 1 million (2001)

  • Television broadcast stations: 3 (plus 58 repeaters) (2001)

  • ---Televisions: 700,000 (2001)


The state broadcaster in Albania is Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH). The broadcaster with the most audience is ''' Top-Channel TV ''' (according to a survey conducted in 2003).


INTERNET

  • Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 10 (2001)

  • --- Internet users: 12,000 (2001)

  • Country Code : AL



REFERENCES



EXTERNAL LINKS