Economic : a new mechanism of activation of telephone communications with the neighboring countries
24.03.07
Baghdad-Sabah
The Ministry of Communications new mechanism to activate the telephone communications with the neighboring countries after the deterioration in the past three years. A source in the ministry statement to the press : that the mechanism would include the increase of cable link between Iraq and the neighboring countries, including the reform of damaged as well as the installation of devices and sophisticated equipment to increase telephone land between Iraq and those countries. He added :
The mechanism will include the signing of bilateral agreements with these countries in this field, especially that Iraq had started two years ago in conjunction EASSy, which connects both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and the Arab Gulf states. " It is noteworthy that the international telephone calls stopped after the April 2003 bombing because of switches and ground stations in the Baghdad and other governorates during the last war, as well as the looting and sabotage that has been exposed.
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