Economic aid - recipient:
$1.2 billion (2001)
Currency (code):
Tanzanian shilling (TZS)
Currency code:
TZS
Exchange rates:
Tanzanian shillings per US dollar - 1,259.54 (2006), 1,128.93
(2005), 1,089.33 (2004), 1,038.42 (2003), 966.58 (2002)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Communications Tanzania
Telephones - main lines in use:
148,400 (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.942 million (2005)
Telephone system:
general assessment: fair system operating below capacity and being
modernized for better service; very small aperture terminal (VSAT)
system under construction
domestic: trunk service provided by open-wire, microwave radio
relay, tropospheric scatter, and fiber-optic cable; some links being
made digital
international: country code - 255; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 12, FM 11, shortwave 2 (1998)