Historical Organization
Telecommunication Company of Iran
Telecommunication Company of Iran
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Organization Timeline
Final UN annex records national telephone-network growth alongside border destruction
đź“… 24 December 1991The annex reported nearly one million telephones before the war and over 2.25 million working lines in 1991, served by about 600 exchanges and 60,000 analogue trunk circuits. National growth coexisted...
Final UN annex records digital modernization studies for Iranian telephone production
đź“… 24 December 1991Government factories in Shiraz manufactured much telecommunications equipment. The annex anticipated a shift to digital technology and reported TCI studies for an Integrated Services Digital...
Final UN annex records inflation affecting the telecommunications damage valuation
đź“… 24 December 1991TCI reported 62 percent inflation over the preceding three years and said its 115,000-million-rial damaged-asset estimate needed upward revision. The annex distinguished the original valuation from...
Final UN annex describes verification of telecommunications damage in fifteen towns
đź“… 24 December 1991Across the June and November missions, experts inspected fifteen towns, including nine heavily damaged ones. Verification combined direct inspection, photographs, nearby building damage and checks...
Final UN annex records Bostan’s interim telephone exchange and expansion needs
📅 24 December 1991Bostan’s destroyed 200-line exchange was replaced by a commissioned 100-line exchange and twelve-channel carrier. The annex reported a radio link still being installed and planned population growth...
Final UN annex records interim and planned telephone capacity in Dehloran
đź“… 24 December 1991Dehloran had an operational 100-line telephone exchange, while a 1,000-line exchange with microwave links was expected to be commissioned. The annex described repeated wartime replacement and...
Final UN annex records Mehran’s interim telephone and radio installation
📅 24 December 1991Mehran’s destroyed 500-line exchange was replaced by an interim 100-line exchange with a 24-channel UHF system. The annex expected substantial expansion as the town developed; interim service did...
Final UN annex records Qasr-e-Shirin’s limited interim telephone recovery
📅 24 December 1991Qasr-e-Shirin’s destroyed 1,000-line exchange had been replaced by a completed interim installation of 100 lines. The final annex documented initial communications recovery after the earlier mission...
Final UN annex identifies Asadabad as a heavily damaged interior communications exception
📅 24 December 1991The annex identified Asadabad’s earth-station complex as heavily damaged, an exception to the generally less serious damage at targeted interior telecommunications installations. The report did not...
Final UN annex identifies possible recovery of buried telecommunications cables
đź“… 24 December 1991Experts considered that part of the damaged underground cable network might be recovered, but tracing telephone conductors and reconnecting them would require substantial labour. Possible salvage...
Final UN annex identifies constraints on competitively priced telephone modernization
đź“… 24 December 1991The mission considered modern technology and competitive international procurement potentially able to reduce cost per telephone line. Iran remained dependent on current domestic factory output...
Final UN annex links telephone expansion to returning and surrounding displaced populations
📅 24 December 1991TCI’s reconstruction plans sought to accommodate original residents and displaced people from surrounding areas. The annex described a need to expand and modernize services beyond merely restoring...
Final UN annex distinguishes recorded telecom spending from its current-price equivalent
đź“… 24 December 1991TCI reported 40,000 million rials already spent on reconstruction, equivalent in its calculation to about 47,000 million at current prices. The two figures expressed the same expenditure on...
Final UN annex records a five-year plan for border-province telephone expansion
đź“… 24 December 1991TCI proposed installing about 450,000 telephone lines in five border provinces during the first five-year plan. The annex described a mix of digital technology and existing factory technology; the...
Final UN annex records foreign-currency requirements for telephone installation
đź“… 24 December 1991TCI estimated a present foreign-currency requirement of about US$1,450 per telephone line. The annex anticipated a possible rise during technology changeover and a later decline once modernized...
Final UN annex recommends exposing telecommunications engineers to new technologies
📅 24 December 1991Skilled labour was reported available for telecommunications reconstruction, but the annex encouraged engineers’ exposure to new technologies abroad. Adequate existing staffing did not remove the need...
Final UN annex quantifies completed and unfinished border telephone-line restoration
đź“… 24 December 1991The annex reported physical completion of about 35,000 of the 50,000 damaged or destroyed telephone lines, with 15,000 still to be commissioned. Basic restoration was distinct from further development...