Debt - external:
$5.8 billion (2002 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$228.5 million (1995)
Currency:
litas (LTL)
Currency code:
LTL
Exchange rates:
litai per US dollar - 3.68 (2002), 4 (2001), 4 (2000), 4 (1999), 4
(1998)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Lithuania
Telephones - main lines in use:
1.142 million (2001)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
500,000 (2001)
Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate, but is being modernized to provide
an improved international capability and better residential access
domestic: a national, fiber-optic cable, interurban, trunk system is
nearing completion; rural exchanges are being improved and expanded;
mobile cellular systems are being installed; access to the Internet
is available; still many unsatisfied telephone subscriber
applications
international: landline connections to Latvia and Poland; major
international connections to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by
submarine cable for further transmission by satellite