Telephones 55,000

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 17, FM 1, shortwave 0

Radios 577,000 (1991 est.)

Television broadcast stations 9

Televisions 300,000 (1993 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding Albania on this page is re-published from the 1998 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Albania Communications 1998 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Albania Communications 1998 should be addressed to the CIA.