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To: milesofstyles who wrote (6232)	6/20/1998 9:23:00 PM
From: LTK007	Respond to of 29382

From the Congo-On-Line--translated from French ___ AFRITEL wants ravir with the OCPT the monopoly of international communications (ACP STATE - 02/04/98) A foreign company of telecommunications, " AFRITEL ", will manage, as of next September, the international communications of the democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) until there monopoly of the Office congolais posts and telecommunications (OCPT). This revelation was made Monday by union representatives of the office who held with the Post office building a general meeting of the workers. The OCPT only will deal with the local communications, for lack of " powerful hardware ", noted the trade unionists in front of a crowd unchained and scandalized by this proposal. The representatives of the workers then indicated that a project of decree, prepared by the ministry for the postal and telecommunications authorities, granting this market of international communications to company AFRITEL, is ready to be signed. " AFRITEL " is with its second attempt ravir this monopoly devoted by the law of 1968 creating the OCPT. The workers and the union representatives promised to immediately take actions to counter the signature of this capable decree to asphyxiate the OCPT, one learned on the spot. They in addition will require in the State congolais to pay its debt towards the office estimated, to date, specifies one, to approximately 24 million American dollars.