Currency code:
KZT
Exchange rates:
tenge per US dollar - 149.576 (2003), 153.279 (2002), 146.736
(2001), 142.133 (2000), 119.523 (1999)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Kazakhstan
Telephones - main lines in use:
2,081,900 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.027 million (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: service is poor; equipment antiquated
domestic: intercity by landline and microwave radio relay; mobile
cellular systems are available in most of Kazakhstan
international: country code - 7; international traffic with other
former Soviet republics and China carried by landline and microwave
radio relay and with other countries by satellite and by the
Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable; satellite earth stations
- 2 Intelsat
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 60, FM 17, shortwave 9 (1998)
Radios:
6.47 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
12 (plus nine repeaters) (1998)