Albania

1. Country: Albania
Country suffix: .al

Population: 3,293 million
Area 28,748:
Capital: Tirana

2. Estimated number of hosts in the local Internet
223 (Ripe, Decemebr 1999).

3. Estimated number of users in theeducational/commercial/governmental sectors:
educational no data
commercial no data
governmental no data

4. List of major commercial ISP's

  1. AdaNet
  2. Abissnet
  3. Albaniaonline
  4. SAN


5. List of major non-commercial ISP's
1. Academic Network
2. ICC

6. Internet Service Providers operating their ownbackbone networks:

Several private ISP operate in Tirana, using direct satellite links.
There is the Academic Network as well, sponsored by Soros Foundation.

6.1. The academic backbone and other private links are based on Aironet
wireless technology running at 500kbps.

6.2. City connected to backbone: Tirana.
There are some dial-up links towards other cities as well.
2.3. Links out of country: each IPS has its satellite link with capacity
between 64-256 kbps.
6.4. Character of ISP: only the Academic Network and the ICC are
non-commercial.

7. Country specific search Web-sites:

 

8. More information about country:

Date: 15.I.2000

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