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)