Currency: tala (WST)
Currency code: WST
Exchange rates: tala per US dollar - 3.3400 (January 2001), 3.2712 (2000), 3.0120 (1999), 2.9429 (1998), 2.5562 (1997), 2.4618 (1996)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Samoa Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 8,000 (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,545 (February 1998)
Telephone system: general assessment: adequate
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)