Economic aid - recipient:
$2.8 billion in committed EU structural adjustment and cohesion
funds (2004-06)
Currency (code):
Czech koruna (CZK)
Currency code:
CZK
Exchange rates:
koruny per US dollar - 23.957 (2005), 25.7 (2004), 28.209 (2003),
32.739 (2002), 38.035 (2001)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Czech Republic
Telephones - main lines in use:
3,217,300 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
11.776 million (2005)
Telephone system:
general assessment: privatization and modernization of the Czech
telecommunication system got a late start but is advancing steadily;
growth in the use of mobile cellular telephones is particularly
vigorous
domestic: 86% of exchanges now digital; existing copper subscriber
systems now being enhanced with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
(ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital signals;
trunk systems include fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay
international: country code - 420; satellite earth stations - 2
Intersputnik (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions), 1 Intelsat, 1
Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat, 1 Globalstar
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 31, FM 304, shortwave 17 (2000)