Currency (code):
rufiyaa (MVR)
Currency code:
MVR
Exchange rates:
rufiyaa per US dollar - 12.8 (2006), 12.8 (2005), 12.8 (2004), 12.8
(2003), 12.8 (2002)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Maldives
Telephones - main lines in use:
32,181 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
271,053 (2006)
Telephone system:
general assessment: Telephone services have improved; each island
now has at least one public telephone, and there are mobile cellular
networks with expanding subscribership
domestic: interatoll communication through microwave links; all
inhabited islands and resorts are connected with telephone and fax
service
international: country code - 960; satellite earth station - 3
Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios:
35,000 (1999)