Types of communications in

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

, including telephones, mass media and the

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ...

. In October 2013, the Algeria Regulatory Authority for Post and Telecommunication awarded 3G licences to the three mobile operators in Algeria:

Mobilis Mobilis may refer to: * ATM Mobilis, a mobile telephone operator in Algeria * Mobilis (Vaud), a public transport tariff network in the Vaud canton of Switzerland * Mobilis (automaker), a Brazilian micro EV maker * Mobilis – Protectis Range, softw ...

, Ooredoo Algeria and Djezzy. The mobile operator companies promised their clients better mobile internet service.

Telephony

Telephones - main lines in use: 3.068 million (2007)
''country comparison to the world:'' 48 Telephones - mobile cellular: 43.227 million (2015)
''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 Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

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Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

, and

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

; coaxial cable to Morocco and Tunisia; participant in Medarabtel; satellite earth stations - 2

Intelsat Intelsat S.A. (formerly Intel-Sat, Intelsat) is a Luxembourgish-American multinational satellite services provider with corporate headquarters in Luxembourg and administrative headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, United States. Originally formed ...

(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): 03 (2005) Internet Hosts: 477 (2008)
''country comparison to the world:'' 161 Internet Users: 20 million (2007)
''country comparison to the world:'' 51

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: .dz

Controversy

In October 2013, the Algeria Regulatory Authority for Post and Telecommunication awarded 3G licences to the three mobile operators in Algeria:

Ooredoo Ooredoo QSC (; formerly Qtel) is a Qatari multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Doha. Ooredoo provides mobile, wireless, wire line, and content services with market share in domestic and internatio ...

, and Djezzy. The mobile operator companies promised their clients better mobile internet service. The authority imposed on mobile operators a 3G double numbering license. This double numbering system requires any citizen that wishes to use the 3G service, must hold two separate 2G and 3G mobile numbers. Having two numbers with two different mobile internet access is more expensive and inconvenient.

''Anonymous involvement''

'' In August 2012 a group in the Anonymous irc channel #OpAlgeria started an operation against the Algeria Regulatory Authority for Post and Telecommunication. This operation was started because the authority 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 Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not con ...

(VPN) technology (for example; PPTP, L2TP, GRE tunneling, OpenVPN, and most other protocols that allow protection of information).''

References

External links

GSM World page on AlgeriaPanAfriL10n page on Algeria
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