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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (75564)	4/8/2002 7:05:25 PM
From: Tassi	Respond to of 122087

Is this ANCC WORK? looks like it.."Central Asia" COMPANIES & FINANCE INTERNATIONAL: Afghans to get GSM phone service Publication: FTI - Financial Times Source: FT Apr 6, 2002 1:50 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication Date: Apr 06,2002 ByLine: By CHARLES CLOVER DateLine: KABUL Financial Times Page 8 Edition: USA Ed2 Section: COMPAN A long-awaited venture to bring wireless telecommunications to Afghanistan looks set to finally begin operating, after seven years of coups, invasions and terrorist attacks keeping the project on hold. The Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) will launch a GSM mobile phone service today, according to Gavin Jeffery, AWCC managing director. According to Mr Jeffery, the venture has raised Dollars 50m from its shareholders. AWCC is a joint venture between the Afghan ministry of communications and Telephone Systems International, a New Jersey-based company set up by Ehsan Bayat, an Afghan expatriate living in the US. TSI is part owned by Network Telecom, a UK-based communications company. Afghanistan has virtually no land-line telecommunications, and the initial phase of the project is supposed to put into place a primary telephony network that will substitute for the lack of fixed-line infrastructure. "Fixed line service is practically non-existent in Afghanistan. They will use this as they would a fixed line system," said Mr Jeffery. "It is quicker and cheaper to build a wireless network than to lay all the cable for a fixed line service." The venture expects to begin selling handsets in Kabul following the launch. The Motorola handsets, including connection fee and one month's access fee, will cost Dollars 350. The system is only operational in Kabul for the moment, but AWCC has plans to expand to Herat, Mazar, Kandahar, and Jelalabad in the coming weeks. While the cost of mobile phones are clearly out of reach of the majority of Afghans, the venture hopes that ordinary people will use the telephony services through public call offices. So far, 23 such offices have been built in Kabul, according to Mr Jeffery. Internet access would be available through the network in a few weeks, he said. Industry codes: Cellular & Other Wireless Telecommunications Country codes: Afghanistan,Asia,South Asia Subject codes: Company News,Joint Ventures,Market Data,Marketing,New Products & Services,Strategy Actuary desc: Telecommunication Services, Wireless Telecommunication Services All Material Subject to Copyright

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (75564)	4/8/2002 8:01:11 PM
From: pilapir	Respond to of 122087

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