system next year
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PNG to receive new telecom system next year
Anew multi-million-kina projected will be launched by Port Moresby Telikom next year to provide over 55,000 telephone lines to its cus tomers in Papua New Guinea.
The projected which is expected to cost more than SUSB.4 million (Kl 2 mil lion), will see the installation of Israeli made digital (computerised) telephone exchange.
This will replace analogue (mechani cal) exchanges in 27 centres throughout
Png.
Telikom is carrying out the project as part of its ongoing modernisation pro gramme to provide modem telecommuni cations services to majority of PNG peo ple beyond the Year 2000.
In order to properly set up the lines and provide efficient and quality services, nine Telikom enginers and technicians have left for Israel to undergo four months of training on a new digital telephone exchange called DMS-10.
The men are William Piel, Susumi Osida, Brian Sam and Lascal Puy from the Telikom Construction Department and
Jack Tomon, Panga Pawa, Lyndon Pinga,
Frank Kimia and Charlie Alfred from the network operations department who are involved in the daily operation and main tenance of exchanges.
Lascel and Jack are engineers , while the rest are senior technical officers. All of them have been involved in the installa
tion of digital exchanges throughout PNG.
They will be trained in the areas of installation, operation and maintenance of the DMS-10 with Telrad Communication and Electronic Industries Limited in Tel Aviv. These engineers will install the new exchanges to replace old analogue exchanges when they return to PNG next year.
The project will take three years to set up. There are currently 17 centres in PNG which use digital exchange.
The 27 centres which will receive the new system are Ela Beach, Gerehu, Lae, Taraka, Wau, Bulolo, Maprik, Madang, Goroka, Kunidawa, Kainantu, Mendi, Mt Hagen, Banz, Porgera, Tari, Minj, Wabag, Namatanai, Kiunga, Buka, Gusap, Arawa, Buin, Kieta, Nairovi and Panguna. ■