Currency code:
BHD
Exchange rates:
Bahraini dinars per US dollar - 0.376 (2006), 0.376 (2005), 0.376
(2004), 0.376 (2003), 0.376 (2002)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Bahrain
Telephones - main lines in use:
196,500 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
748,700 (2005)
Telephone system:
general assessment: modern system
domestic: modern fiber-optic integrated services; digital network
with rapidly growing use of mobile cellular telephones
international: country code - 973; tropospheric scatter to Qatar and
UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to
Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 1 (1997)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios:
338,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
4 (1997)