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To: energyplay who wrote (20468)	7/26/2007 8:31:53 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217677

The guys built GSM networks there. It is not a single site that you can fence and put security around. They have to build like a 1.000 sites. Acquire them. Build the civil works infrastructure. Then built the network gear and after that maintain it. And they did. We need to ask Bechtel how comes the operators built two GSM networks under bullets. Granted, the insurgents may have not harmed the rollout because they needed the network to communicate and to use the mobile to set off bombs. My colleague from Alcatel, who helped built Orascom network, said between 6:00AM and 7:30AM the network was shut down to avoid insurgents using the mobiles phones to trigger road side bombs to blast the Humvees going out for the day to patrol.