Communications
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 Tirane 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.)
