Currency code:
MDL
Exchange rates:
lei per US dollar - 12.33 (2004), 13.945 (2003), 13.571 (2002),
12.865 (2001), 12.434 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Moldova
Telephones - main lines in use:
706,900 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
338,200 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate, outmoded, poor service outside
Chisinau; some effort to modernize is under way
domestic: new subscribers face long wait for service; mobile
cellular telephone service being introduced
international: country code - 373; service through Romania and
Russia via landline; satellite earth stations - Intelsat, Eutelsat,
and Intersputnik
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 7, FM 50, shortwave 3 (1998)
Radios:
3.22 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (plus 30 repeaters) (1995)