Albania Communications 1996

Telephone system:

about 55,000 telephones; about 15 telephones/1,000 persons

local:

primitive; about 11,000 telephones in Tirane, the capital city

intercity:

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; carried through the Tirane exchange and transmitted through Italy on 240 microwave radio relay circuits and through Greece on 150 microwave radio relay circuits

Radio:

broadcast stations:

AM 17, FM 1, shortwave 0

radios:

515,000 (1987 est.)

Television:

broadcast stations:

televisions:

255,000 (1987 est.)

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