Final UN annex records Bostan’s interim telephone exchange and expansion needs

The annex reported three attacks on Neka power station, causing loss of 25 percent of its output for over four and a half years. The account distinguished prolonged generating loss from the later...

The 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...

Government factories in Shiraz manufactured much telecommunications equipment. The annex anticipated a shift to digital technology and reported TCI studies for an Integrated Services Digital...

TCI 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...

Across the June and November missions, experts inspected fifteen towns, including nine heavily damaged ones. Verification combined direct inspection, photographs, nearby building damage and checks...

Dehloran 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...

Mehran’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...

Qasr-e-Shirin’s destroyed 1,000-line exchange had been replaced by a completed interim installation of 100 lines.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...

The 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...

Experts 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...