Currency code:
UAH
Exchange rates:
hryvnia per US dollar - 5.05 (2006), 5.1247 (2005), 5.3192 (2004),
5.3327 (2003), 5.3266 (2002)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Ukraine
Telephones - main lines in use:
12.142 million (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
17.214 million (2005)
Telephone system:
general assessment: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan,
running through 2005, emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines,
international connections, and the mobile cellular system
domestic: at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a
telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair;
more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be
satisfied; telephone density is rising slowly and the domestic trunk
system is being improved; the mobile cellular telephone system is
expanding at a high rate
international: country code - 380; two new domestic trunk lines are
a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and three
Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic
Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that connects 18 countries;
additional international service is provided by the
Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and
by earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik
satellite systems
Radio broadcast stations:
AM, FM, shortwave combined 524 (2006)
Radios:
45.05 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
at least 647 (2006)