Post and Telecom of Kosovo, telecommunications companies KUJTESA and IPKO now have over half million Internet subscribers at home and its use in the country increased by 6 percent, compared with a year earlier making Kosovo the leader in the Balkans in Internet usage. 

Chairman of the Board of Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Ekrem Hoxha, said the expansion of Internet services for 2009 has been about 121 subscriptions or 7.05 percent per capita.

"Expansion of Internet services for homes was 35 percent in 2009, while in the period August 2008 expansion of these services has been about 21. 6 percent ", Hoxha stressed.

The spokesman of Post and Telecom of Kosovo (PTK), Menduh Abazi, has stated that PTK currently has over 35 thousand users of the Internet against 21 thousand who had in early 2009.

"Every day more this number continues to mark the month-on-month increase, currently is about 800 to 900 new customers per month to connect to the Internet network of PTK", he stressed the newspaper.

But official spokesperson of IPKO telecommunications company, Alban Kastrati said that IPKO today has more than 230 thousand Internet subscribers in Kosovo.

"With this broad range of modern telecommunication services, the IPKO company is positioning the  state of Kosovo as a modern country, where high rates of Internet expansion and usage remain strong social indicators," Kastrati said.

According to him, the Internet use has increased in Kosovo in extraordinary numbers, if you compare the numbers on an annual basis since 1999, when IPKO has started for the first time provide internet services in Kosovo.

Another internet and cable provider, KUJTESA is belived to have another 100,000 internet and cable subscribers.

Kosovo is listed ahead of many regional countries and in the European Union in the percentage of internet users.  In contrast, Europe now has 24 percent of Internet users in the world.
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