Telecommunications in Algeria
Communications in Algeria.
Telephony
Telephones - main lines in use: 3.068 million (2007)
country comparison to the world: 48
Telephones - mobile cellular: 27.563 million (2007)
country comparison to the world: 31
Telephone system: domestic: good service in north but sparse in south; domestic satellite system with 12 earth stations (20 additional domestic earth stations are planned)
international: 5 submarine cables; microwave radio relay to Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, and Tunisia; coaxial cable to Morocco and Tunisia; participant in Medarabtel; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik, and 1 Arabsat
Mass media
Radio broadcast stations: AM 25, FM 1, shortwave 8 (1999)
Radios: 7.1 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 46 (plus 216 repeaters) (1995)
Televisions: 3.1 million (1997)
Internet
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 30 (2005)
Internet Hosts: 477 (2008)
country comparison to the world: 161
Internet Users: 3.5 million (2007)
country comparison to the world: 51
Anonymous involvement
In August 2012 a group in the Anonymous irc channel #OpAlgeria started an operation against the ARPT (Authorite postal et telecommunication). This operation was started because the ARPT made a decision to require authorization of its users before allowing them to use any kind of encryption (for example; IpSec). They also will require authorization for any type of Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology (for example; PPTP, L2TP, GRE Tunneling, OpenVPN, and most other protocols that allow you protect your information).
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the CIA World Factbook.
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