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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



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