Exchange rates:
Surinamese dollars per US dollar - 2.7336 (2004), Surinamese
guilders per US dollar - 2.6013 (2003), 2.3468 (2002), 2.1785
(2001), 1.3225 (2000)
note: during 1998, the exchange rate splintered into four distinct
rates; in January 1999 the government floated the guilder, but
subsequently fixed it when the black-market rate plunged; in January
2004, the government introduced the Surinamese dollar as replacement
for the guilder, tied to a US dollar-dominated currency basket
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Communications Suriname
Telephones - main lines in use:
79,800 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
168,100 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: international facilities are good
domestic: microwave radio relay network
international: country code - 597; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 4, FM 13, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios:
300,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
3 (plus seven repeaters) (2000)
Televisions:
63,000 (1997)