Albania: Communication#
| Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 226,718 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 7 (July 2015 est.) |
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| Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 3.401 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 112 (July 2015 est.) |
| Telephone system | general assessment: despite new investment in fixed lines, teledensity remains low with roughly 10 fixed lines per 100 people; mobile-cellular telephone use is widespread and generally effective domestic: offsetting the shortage of fixed-line capacity, mobile-cellular phone service has been available since 1996; by 2011, multiple companies were providing mobile services, and mobile teledensity had reached 100 per 100 persons; Internet broadband services in international: country code - 355; submarine cable provides connectivity to Italy, Croatia, and Greece; the Trans-Balkan Line, a combination submarine cable and land fiber-optic system, provides additional connectivity to Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Turkey; international t (2015) |
| Broadcast media | 3 public TV networks, one of which transmits by satellite to Albanian-language communities in neighboring countries; more than 60 private TV stations; many viewers can pick up Italian and Greek TV broadcasts via terrestrial reception; cable TV service is (2010) |
| Internet country code | .al |
| Internet users | total: 1.916 million percent of population: 63.2% (July 2015 est.) |