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From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
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Subject: Re: Dial `A' for Albania
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Date: 12 Apr 90 23:22:27 GMT
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In article <6292@accuvax.nwu.edu>, henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes:
 
> [Picked up from the [New York Times]:
 
> Even AT&T has no idea how many telephones there are in Albania, a
> country where the private ownership of automobiles is forbidden and
> most people travel on foot or by oxcart.

According to a recent chart in the _Economist_, Albania's telephone to
population ratio is approximately 1%.  With a population of a bit over
a million and a half, this works out to about 15,000 telephones in the
entire nation.  Five-digit national phone numbers, anyone?


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