Exchange rates:

Tuvaluan dollars or Australian dollars (AUD) per US dollar - 1.1151 (2009), 1.2059 (2008), 1.2137 (2007), 1.3285 (2006)

Communications ::Tuvalu

Telephones - main lines in use:

1,700 (2009) country comparison to the world: 226

Telephones - mobile cellular:

2,000 (2009) country comparison to the world: 215

Telephone system:

general assessment: serves particular needs for internal communications

domestic: radiotelephone communications between islands