TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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The First Telecommunications Project, to be implemented during 1987-91, supports an investment program which consists of the last four years of the Seventh Five Year Plan (1986-90) for Magyar Posta's (MP) telecommunications plus the first year of the Eighth Five Year Plan (1991). It also supports the program for reform in Hungary and development of the telecommunications sector by (a) increasing the financial and administrative autonomy, flexibility and efficiency of MP's telecommunications activities; (b) rehabilitating and expanding the local telephone network and expanding the long distance telephone network; and (c) expanding telex and data services. Further to this, the project supports (d) improving the geographical balance of the network by extending services outside Budapest; and (e) providing consultants' services for review of the tariff structure, traffic measurement and engineering, creation of a software center, development of a digitalization plan, improvement of management information systems and expansion of telephone associations.