Currency code:
SCR
Exchange rates:
Seychelles rupees per US dollar - 5.48 (2002), 5.86 (2001), 5.71
(2000), 5.34 (1999), 5.26 (1998)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Seychelles
Telephones - main lines in use:
19,635 (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
16,316 (1999)
Telephone system:
general assessment: effective system
domestic: radiotelephone communications between islands in the
archipelago
international: direct radiotelephone communications with adjacent
island countries and African coastal countries; satellite earth
station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)
Radios:
42,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
2 (plus 9 repeaters) (1997)