Telephones - main lines in use: 170,000 (2000)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 15,000 (2000)
Telephone system:
- 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: 1,200,000 (2000)
Television broadcast stations: 13 (1999)
Televisions: 650,000 (2000)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 12 (2000)
Country code: AL
Much of the material in this article comes from the CIA World Factbook 2000.
- See also : Albania