Final UN annex records a five-year plan for border-province telephone expansion

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...

The mission considered modern technology and competitive international procurement potentially able to reduce cost per telephone line. Iran remained dependent on current domestic factory output...

TCI’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...

TCI 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...

TCI 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...

Skilled 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...

The 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...

Two national radio programmes reached 95 and 80 percent of the population, and two television programmes 85 and 65 percent, the annex reported. These were programme-specific coverage estimates...

Twenty-four local radio and television centres produced contributions incorporated into the second national programmes. The annex distinguished these local production centres from the Tehran...