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From: Aleksander Murzaku <murzaku@microlytics.com> To: sghuter@psg.com Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 10:30:49 -0400 > Does anybody know what makes so difficult, to estabilish a site of Internet > in Albania. The thing that I am not able to understand is that the > procedure is very trivial and straight-forward. What I mean is are the > difficulties faced administrative (like local byrocracy, ...etc) or > technical. Any answer is very much appreciated. There are a lot of difficulties setting up the internet connection to Albania. The most important one is that the telephone lines are not reliable. If this is not enough, there is a lot of "tapping" into the existing ones. A few years ago, there was a telephone connection to the internet through CNUCE in Pisa. It was working fine until somebody found out about this line and tapped into it for making personal calls worldwide. In any case, even if all these problems were solved, the telephone connection is not that cheap. Have you ever compared the phone rates to Albania with those of any other country in the world? Calls to Albania are the most expensive ones. It seems that Albania lines go to the Moon and than come down. You should also know that having a telephone in Albania is a privilege (there are only a few thousand available numbers) so even if somebody or a company or the government decided to make the routing of e-mail (the minimum), there would be very few paying users which would be a factor to sky-rocket the price for the end user. All of these combined make this procedure very complicated and not possible for both educational and commercial institutions and especially for private users. Obviously, making the configuration is very easy: all you need is an IP number and the registration of the domain. The problem comes when you will have to keep up the physical connection. That UNDP satellite link makes me hope though that some day we will be able to send some messages over there (we could save some money on phone bills!!!). Hoping this will happen soon I wish you all the best. Regards, Aleksander Murzaku -- (public key on pgp-servers) Microlytics, Inc. -- http://www.microlytics.com Two Tobey Village Office Park -- Pittsford, New York 14534 Tel: 716 248 9150 ext.118 -- Fax: 716 248 3868
