Currency code:
LBP
Exchange rates:
Lebanese pounds per US dollar - 1,507.5 (2004), 1,507.5 (2003),
1,507.5 (2002), 1,507.5 (2001), 1,507.5 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Lebanon
Telephones - main lines in use:
678,800 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
775,100 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: telecommunications system severely damaged by
civil war; rebuilding well underway
domestic: primarily microwave radio relay and cable
international: country code - 961; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean) (erratic operations);
coaxial cable to Syria; microwave radio relay to Syria but
inoperable beyond Syria to Jordan; 3 submarine coaxial cables
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 20, FM 22, shortwave 4 (1998)
Radios:
2.85 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
15 (plus 5 repeaters) (1995)