TELECOM III

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The Third Telecommunications Project will help rehabilitate and expand telecommunication facilities in Papua New Guinea and assist the Government and the Post and Telecommunication Corporation (PTC) in their institutional development. Specific components will: (a) rehabilitate about 27,000 existing subscriber lines; (b) expand local telephone service by about 10,000 new subscriber lines; (c) install new transit exchanges; (d) expand and rehabilitate the long-distance network; and (e) replace the international earth satellite station. It will also: (f) introduce data communications and improve telex services; (g) replace obsolete high frequency radio communication stations with new stations; (h) assist the Department of Finance and Planning to improve the performance monitoring of PTC and train its staff; and (i) train PTC's national engineers. Finally, it will: (j) second PTC national engineers and managers to appropriate telephone companies; (k) introduce a modern management information system; (l) increase PTC's customer focus by the creation of district offices; and (m) improve PTC's organizational structure.