TELECOM.V-1ST TRANCH

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The project would include: (a) installation of automatic telephone exchange equipment for 29,300 lines and manual switchboards for about 4,500 local lines; (b) extension of local cable distribution networks, cable pressurization equipment and subscribers plant for about 27,000 new subscribers stations; (c) installation of microwave systems for the Asmara-Tessenei and Dese-Assab routes; multiplex equipment for about 720 channel ends on microwave systems; line carrier equipment for about 200 system channels; extensions and reconstruction of the open-wire network and installation of automatic trunk switching equipment for Shashamane; (d) teleprinters; telex and telegraph extension equipment; and (e) installation of an earth satellite station, including a SPADE terminal, an international telephone exchange forsemi-automatic operation, an interconnecting microwave system and consultants' assistance.