SOLTEL passes
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a big test
SOLTEL, 49% Solomon Islands Government and 51% British Cable and Wireless Limited, has taken Solomon Islands into the space age of telecommunications with the installation of a satellite earth station.
Solomon Islands’ vastly im
proved telephone and telex
facilities were put to the test in July when Pacific leaders con verged on Honiara for the annual South Pacific Forum
meeting.
Under greatest pressure was the temporary press room set up at the Mendana Hotel.
SOLTEL operators responded magnificently to the heavy de mands of journalists from all
directions including Papua
New Guinea, New Hebrides, Australia, New Zealand and
Japan.
SOLTEL General Manager C. Brooker describes the earth station as the first stage of an ongoing process of expansion.
Honiara’s new satellite earth station ... into the space age