Posted on 07/02/2005 9:36:22 AM PDT by Wiz
Violence in Iraq continues and the survival of the recently elected government remains shaky, but some companies are forging ahead, looking to help build the country's wireless telecommunications sector, UPI reported.
The U.S invasion of Iraq in March 2003 destroyed much of the nation's telecom infrastructure. Now, analysts see profit potential not in rebuilding the system, but in replacing it with a thoroughly modern network driven largely by the private sector.
According to the senior vice president of EMW in Herndon, a US consultancy group, like other developing countries, Iraq's immediate telecom needs would be better served by a mobile network rather than landlines based on copper cable or fiber optics, which would require much excavation. He said there are about 1 million existing phone lines in Iraq and approximately 2 million cell phones, but in a country with nearly 25 million potential users.
Asiacell, a partnership between Kuwaiti phone group Wataniya Telecom and the United Gulf Bank, has been allowed to operate for profit since 2003 - albeit solely in northern Iraq. The Ministry of Communications has divided the country into three network zones encompassing northern Iraq, southern Iraq and the Baghdad area, and each regional block has been licensed to different carriers.
(Excerpt) Read more at almendhar.com ...
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But there is an endless Vietnam quagmire in Iraq. No good can come out of that land.
you forgot to insert the sarcasm tag :)
"you forgot to insert the sarcasm tag :)"
Whoops. Didn't think I needed one however, since I taint a looney troller. Sorry Wiz.
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