Exchange rates:
Yemeni rials per US dollar - 192.67 (2005), 184.78 (2004), 183.45
(2003), 175.63 (2002), 168.67 (2001)
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calendar year
Communications Yemen
Telephones - main lines in use:
798,100 (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
2 million (2005)
Telephone system:
general assessment: since unification in 1990, efforts have been
made to create a national telecommunications network
domestic: the national network consists of microwave radio relay,
cable, tropospheric scatter, and GSM cellular mobile telephone
systems
international: country code - 967; satellite earth stations - 3
Intelsat (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1 Intersputnik
(Atlantic Ocean region), and 2 Arabsat; microwave radio relay to
Saudi Arabia and Djibouti
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 6, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)
Radios:
1.05 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
7 (plus several low-power repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
470,000 (1997)