Exchange rates:

Jersey pounds per US dollar 0.5302 (2008 est.), 0.4993 (2007), 0.5418 (2006), 0.5493 (2005), 0.5462 (2004)

note: the Jersey pound is at par with the British pound

Communications ::Jersey

Telephones - main lines in use:

74,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 154

Telephones - mobile cellular:

83,900 (2004) country comparison to the world: 185

Telephone system:

general assessment: state owned, partially-competitive market; increasingly modern, with some broadband access