Albtelecom gets excellence award for broadband internet

TIRANA, Dec. 7 – Albania’s largest telecommunications company, Albtelecom, received this week the excellence award for Broadband Internet services. The award was granted by Infocom Albania, during a conference on “Digital Albania: Driving the Broadband Highway” held in Tirana.
The award was handed to the General Director of ALBtelecom and Eagle Mobile, Dr. Orhan Coskun by the Deputy Minister of Innovation and ITC, Visho Ajazi.
“We are happy to receive such an award as an appreciation of the work of hundreds of colleagues in Albtelecom who have worked day and night, often in difficult terrain and weather conditions to extend the internet throughout Albania. These silent heroes have laid more than 1,000 kilometers of optical lines across the country, connecting Albanians with each other and Albania with the world,” said Dr. Coskun after receiving the award.
Senior directors of telecommunication companies in Albania exchanged their views on the issues, developments and innovations of this very important sector to the Albanian economy.
Addressing the participants, Deputy General Director of Albtelecom and Eagle Mobile, Baki Kuran said “these two companies have invested more than 150 million Euros for the renovation of infrastructure, laying new optical lines, modernizing the company, increasing internet capacity through Bari-Durres fibre-optic line.” According to him, “within a year Albtelecom has doubled the population’s cable and wireless internet coverage from 45% to 92%. ALBtelecom has recently shifted to NGN technology.”