TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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The project would improve telecommunications services by extending local services and providing high quality long-distance circuits, and would also provide basic telecommunications facilities to rural areas which are currently poorly served. Major components would include the installation of: (a) a total of about 46,200 additional lines of local automatic exchange equipment with associated cables and subscribers' plant, and a total of about 46,000 additional connections; (b) long distance public call offices to provide services in about 200 urban, rural, and market areas currently without telephone services; (c) eight microwave radio systems each with a capacity of 960 channels, three UHF radio systems with a total of 540 channels, about 190 UHF/VHF channels, and multiplex equipment to provide about 3,100 additional channels; (d) eleven long distance automatic exchanges with a total of about 3,600 terminations and extensions to existing exchanges by a total of about 1,800 terminations; and (e) buildings to house equipment.