Albania Telecommunications Profile 2002

Telephones - main lines in use

120,000 (2001)

Telephones - mobile cellular

250,000 (2001)

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

Radios

1 million (2001)

Radio broadcast stations

AM 13, FM 4, shortwave 2 (2001)

Televisions

700,000 (2001)

Television broadcast stations

3 (plus 58 repeaters) (2001)

Internet country code

.al

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

10 (2001)

Internet users

12,000 (2001)