Exchange rates: Kenyan shillings (KSh) per US$1—61.802 (January 1999), 60.367 (1998), 58.732 (1997), 57.115 (1996), 51.430 (1995), 56.051 (1994)
Fiscal year: 1 July—30 June
Communications
Telephones: 383,676 (1997); 3,077 cellular telephone subscribers (1998)
Telephone system: domestic: primarily microwave radio relay international: satellite earth stations—4 Intelsat
Radio broadcast stations: AM 24, FM 7, shortwave 2
Radios: 5 million
Television broadcast stations: 8 (of which six are government-controlled and two are commercial) (1997)
Televisions: 500,000
Transportation