Economic aid - recipient:
$1.4 billion (2000)
Currency (code):
Ugandan shilling (UGX)
Currency code:
UGX
Exchange rates:
Ugandan shillings per US dollar - 1,810.3 (2004), 1,963.7 (2003),
1,797.6 (2002), 1,755.7 (2001), 1,644.5 (2000)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Communications Uganda
Telephones - main lines in use:
61,000 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
776,200 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: seriously inadequate; two cellular systems have
been introduced, but a sharp increase in the number of main lines is
essential; e-mail and Internet services are available
domestic: intercity traffic by wire, microwave radio relay, and
radiotelephone communication stations, fixed and mobile cellular
systems for short-range traffic
international: country code - 256; satellite earth stations - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Inmarsat; analog links to Kenya and
Tanzania
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 7, FM 33, shortwave 2 (2001)