Currency (code):
Philippine peso (PHP)
Currency code:
PHP
Exchange rates:
Philippine pesos per US dollar - 51.5747 (2006), 55.086 (2005),
56.04 (2004), 54.203 (2003), 51.604 (2002)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Philippines
Telephones - main lines in use:
3,437,500 (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
32.81 million (2005)
Telephone system:
general assessment: good international radiotelephone and submarine
cable services; domestic and inter-island service adequate
domestic: domestic satellite system with 11 earth stations; cellular
communications now dominate the industry with roughly 10 mobile
cellular subscribers for every fixed-line subscriber
international: country code - 63; 11 international gateways;
submarine cables to Hong Kong, Guam, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan,
Brunei, and Malaysia among others
Radio broadcast stations: AM 375, FM 596, shortwave 4 note: each shortwave station operates on multiple frequencies in the language of the target audience (2006)
Radios:
11.5 million (1997)