Currency code:
MWK
Exchange rates:
Malawian kwachas per US dollar - 108.894 (2004), 97.433 (2003),
76.687 (2002), 72.197 (2001), 59.544 (2000)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Communications Malawi
Telephones - main lines in use:
85,000 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
135,100 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: NA
domestic: system employs open-wire lines, microwave radio relay
links, and radiotelephone communications stations
international: country code - 265; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 9, FM 5 (plus 15 repeater stations), shortwave 2 (plus a third
station held in standby status) (2001)
Radios:
2.6 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (2001)