Bulgaria

1. Country: Bulgaria
Country suffix: .bg

Population: 8.2 million
Area: 110 003 sq km
Capital: Sofia

2. Estimated number of hosts in the local Internet
Approx. 30 000 hosts (December 1999)

3. Estimated number of users in theeducational/commercial/governmental sectors:
educational 90 000
commercial 50 000
governmental 5 000

4. List of major commercial ISP's
1. Otel.Net
2. Digital System
3. Pro-Link
4. BTC
5. SpectrumNet
6. Mobiltel
7. Mobikom
8. Gocis
9. IBM Net
10. BIT
11. Naturela
12. BIA Net

5. List of major non-commercial ISP's

1. Bulgarian Academic Network -Unicom
2. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences- BASNet


6. Internet Service Providers operating their ownbackbone networks:

6.1. Technology used to operate the backbone network and its speed
6.2. Number of major cities connected to the backbone
6.3. Links out of the country: how many, their speed and technology
6.4. Character of the ISP: commercial/non-commercial

Bulgarian Telecomunication Company - BTC
6.1. STM 16 - 2.4 GBps backbone Network, ATM between 3 biggest sities, X25 for dialup network. The ONLY fixed line operator
6.2. 30
6.3. 3, 12 MBps, IP
6.4. commercial

Otel.Net
6.1. STM 16 - 2.4 GBps backbone Network, ATM between 3 biggest sities, X25 for dialup network. The ONLY fixed line operator
6.2. 30
6.3. 3, 12 MBps, IP
6.4. commercial

Unicom
6.1. 1 Mbps
6.2. 12
6.3. 3, 512 Kbps
6.4. non-commercial

Mobikom
6.1. IP - 2MBps
6.2. 10
6.3. 2, 4 Mbps
6.4. commercial

Digital Systems
6.1. IP, mixed
6.2. 46
6.3. 2, 512 KBps
6.4. commercial

Gocis
6.1. IP and X25, 2 Mbps
6.2. 13
6.3. 4, 4 Mbps
6.4. commercial

Spectrum Net
6.1. IP - 1 MBps
6.2. 10
6.3. 3, 6 MBps
6.4. commercial

7. Country specific search Web-sites:

8. More information about country:

• Bulgaria Sites
• Information about Bulgaria