VIETNAM

RADIO, TV COMMISSION HOLDS CONFERENCE IN HO CHI MINH CITY

Ho Chi Minh City Domestic Service in Vietnamese 2345 GME 8 Nov 77 OW

[Text] On 8 November in Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnam Radio and Television Commission
opened the first conference on broadcasting and wired radio activities in the southern
provinces, Attending the conference were representatives of people's committees and propa-
ganda and training departments of provincial party committees. Also present were cadres
in charge of radio and television stations in the southern provinces.

Comrade Tran Lam, alternate member of the party Central Committee and chairman of the
Vietnam Radio and Television Commission, reported on the situation and duties of the
local radio broadcasting and wired radio networks, After pointing out the great achieve-
ments of the broadcasting and wired radio networks over the past 30 years, he talked
about the duties and functions of the Radio and Television Commission and the present
broadcasting and wired radio task,

The political task of the radio broadcasting and television network is essentially the

sam as the political task of the press organs aimed at contributing to the propaganda,
education, motivation and organization of the masses and transforming the party's resolu-
ticns into the mass revolutionary action movement. Today, although most radio broadcasting
stations and tine local wired radio network have just been built, the radio broadcasting and
wired radio task lias enjoyed basic advantages. The radio broadcasting and wired radio
networks have been entrusted by the party and state with a glorious political task and a
worthy role in sovialist construction. They have been provided with fairly good material
and technical means and cadres and have acquired much experience serving as a basis for
further progress.

The conference heard a draft report on the functions, duties and organization of the body
managing the local radio broadcasting and wired radio network and the organs in the
southern provinces responsible for assisting the Vietnam Radio and Television Commission
in the radio broadcasting and wired radio activities.

The conference will work for 3 days.

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At this point in time, this project is
one of ithe roany pieces ot
evidence we can quote to the
outside world to adduce to the
progress of the railitary Gov rn-
ment and dynamic advancement
in all fields.

This station gives us yet another
gommunication avenue in addi-
fon to our other routes by road,

a gil and air. To meet owr_ daily
meed to communicate ‘urgently
and fast enough, these alone have
not. been sufficient. :

When this station is completed early
next year as it is anticipated, it
will greatly ease our communica-
_tion problems both domestically
and internationally, though it is
partly operational at the moment.

At the international level, we shall
be able to receive easily our teiex

‘and telephone calls, and also he
able to get clearer pictures on
our television screens.

More importantly also, Ugandan

' businessmen should soon be able
‘to directly talk trade and busi-
ness. issues with any foreign
country and business bodies. ‘This
will give us a fair chance to be
represented and our trade links
will thus be boosted greatly.

Because of our dynamic President's
wish to provide the whole
country with easy communication
means, other satellite sub-
stations will be erected in
Kapchorwa, Mbarara, Fort Portal
and Kabale to cater for the
entire country.

This, in its entirety, means that the
purpose of establishing such
Stations in the country is to give
quick and co-ordinated communi-
eation services, thus helping the
ecuntry to advance in all fields.

It is our wish and hope, therefore
that all the citizens of the country
will honour this great achieve-
ment and utilise these services.
especially for developmental and
educational purposes.

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CHAD

PLANETARIUM TO BE OPENED IN SOVIET TRACKING STATION |

Ndjamena INFO TCHAD in French 13 Oct 77 pp 2-4

[Text] A Soviet artificial satellite tracking station has been operating in
Ndjamena since 1971. It is installed in accordance with a 5-year agreement
that is automatically extended if one side does not cancel it 3 months prior
to its expiration date. Tomorrow, a planetarium will be opened inside the
tracking station. Having these installations on Chadian soil is one of the
ways the country can participate in the astronomical research program.

The tracking station operates under the international COSPAR [Committee on
Space Research] program. The scientific institutes of the Soviet Union and
other countries transmit to the station data on the movement of satellites,
and every night the Ndjamena technicians open a sheet metal roof to probe
the sky with their telescope. The results of their observations are used
for tree astronomical programs:

--Dynamics program (research on the earth's gravitation)
--Atmosphere program (research on the upper layers of the atmosphere
--Calculation of the great chord.

The great chord is the line between the two poles of the Earth. We believe
we know the dimensions of the Earth, but we are recalculating the length of
that line (to within a tenth of a centimeter). More than 20 tracking sta-
tions are collecting data to that end, filming satellites from various posi-
tions. Ndjamena is situated precisely on that line. Therefore it is parti-
cipating in the synchronized tracking. The stations work in pairs. The
Ndjauena tracking station is sometimes paired with the Malabo station, some-
times with the Mogadiscio station, and even with those of Bamako, Santiago
de Cuba, Quito (Ecuador), La Paz (Bolivia), the Kerguelan Islands, etc.

The Sky in Miniature in Motion
Eventually, if Chad has a space program, she can train her specialists at

this station. But the station will be even more suitable for training
future specialists because of the planetarium that will be opened tomorrow.

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experience with networks in the 11 countries (plus South Africa) that have
adopted this system, CIT-ALCATEL is in an excellent international position

in this field. As of 30 September, 190,000 E-10 lines were in operation, in-
cluding the Paris region, and 525 lines under order. Abroad, 30,000 E-10 lines
were in operation and 120,000 lines under order. For 1977, CIT-ALCATEL --
which will put 130,000 E-10 lines in operation and 890,000 CP-400 lines, in
France -- has orders on its books for 315,000 E-10 lines for PTT (including
the AOIP [Precision Instrument Workers Association] share) and 64,500 lines
for export. Next year, it anticipates a 50-percent increase in PTT orders for
E-10 and a 16-percent decrease in Crossbar orders.

Fayard also stressed the importance of having the company's own technology, in
order to tackle the international market. "The administrations of the various
countries address themselves preferably to the holder of a system rather than
to its licensees. We experienced that with Crossbar. With the support of the
administration, we have been developing, for the last 10 years now, a complete
range of temporal switching systems based on the E-10 and E-12 systems, whose
design is entirely national,” he stated.

In addition to the E-10 system in operation at present (1,500-erlang [traffic
unit] capacity), CIT-ALCATEL is developing a higher capacity version (3,000
erlangs) capable of providing connections for 30,000 subscribers. The first
two systems in this configuration (128 US) will be installed in Mexico, in March
1979, and at Brest in that same year (the order should be announced shortly).

Let us note that this new system goes along with larger contracts for telephone
exchanges in France (in competition with AXE) and export contracts (72 percent
of the foreign contracts pertain to exchanges for 8,000 to 25,000 subscribers,
compared with 26 percent for exchanges with less than 8,000 subscribers and

2 persent for exchanges with over 25,000 subscribers, according to calls for
bids put out in the last 3 years and involving a sampling of over 1 million
lines). ‘Thus, it can be understood why an American study submitted to the
Carter Administration singled out CIT-ALCATEL in particular as the principal
threat, on a worliwide basis, to American constructors.

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INDIA

BRIEFS

DECISION TO DISMANTLE SAMACHAR--The Union Cabinet is understood to have
taken a decision on SAMACHAR. The decision will be announced in Parliament,
which begins its session on Monday, SAMACHAR says it is understood that

it has been decided that the SAMACHAR setup will be dismantled and the
status quo ante as on the 3lst of January 1975 will be restored. This
means the revival of the two English news agencies--the PRESS TRUST OF
INDIA and the UNITED NEWS OF INDIA--and two Hindi agencies--the SAMACHAR

Bharti and Hindustan SAMACHAR. [Text] [Delhi Domestic Service in English
1530 GMT 10 Nov 77 BK]

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YUGOSLAVIA

"TANJUG' MODERNIZES ITS TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT
Belgrade TANJUG in English 0910 GMT 14 Nov 77 LD
[Pool item]

[Text] Belgrade, November 14, (TANJUG)--By modernizing its technical basis
the Yugoslav news agency TANJUG is now able to send information on Yugo~
slavia to farthest off parts of the world and to participate successfully
in information exchanges among the nonaligned countries news agencies. This
is stressed in the final report regarding the realization of. the law on
modernizing TANJUG's technical basis recently submitted to delegates at

the assembly of Yugoslavia.

The modernization of TANJUG's technical basis was successfully completed
in less than five years. The major part of the new technical equipment for
TANJUG's broadcasting and receiving centers began operation in 1975, while
the other smaller part of equipment began to operate shortly before the
start of the second phase of the Conference on European Security and Co-
operation.

The successful o»eration of the new equipment was the basis for founding the
pool of the nonaligned countries news agencies and it enabled efficient re-
porting from Colombo, in the same way the new equipment enables effective
reception of foreign programs.

The completion of the modernization of its technical basis before the dead-
line set down in the law also enables TANJUG to use its new equipment for

increasing the placement of information of Yugoslavia and important inter-
national events abroad.

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New Name
Kampala VOICE OF UGANDA in English 9 Nov 77 p 1

[Bext] PRESIDENT Amin has disclosed
ete wil bo nov ‘ag Gig
feat Nile Broadcasting Corpora-

it

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JPRS 70242

29 November 1977

TRANSLATIONS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY,
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

No. 22
ConTENTS Pace
INTERNATIONAL
Briefs
Ugandan Accord With MENA 1
Libya-Japan Telecommunications 1
Telecommunications Network Proposed 1
ASIA
INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS
PRC Broadcasting Delegation Feted in Tokyo
(NCNA, 9 NOV 77) secceccccccccccccccsccccccccccccuccccccce 2

PRC Telecommunications Delegation Departs Cambodia
(NCNA, 12 NOV 77) sesscccccccccscecncccccccccecccccccecces 3

Briefs
Cambodia~PRC Telecommunications Protocols 4
INDIA
Government Outlines Proposals for News Agencies
(Delhi Domestic Service, 14 Nov 77) ooo ececcecccccccencsce 5
Briefs
Decision To Dismantle SAMACHAR 6
INDONESIA
Briefs
Ambon~Jakarta Telephone Link 7

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also decided to set up a permanent secretariat responsible for coordinating
and fostering cooperation among various news agencies as well as following
up the setting up of a regional structure of the Pan-African news agency.

The conference declared support to the efforts being made by the nonaligned
countries for establishing a new international information order in conso-
nance with the interests of the Third World countries.

It accepted the proposal of the League of Arab States for holding a joint
meeting of information ministers of the OAU and the League of Arab states.

The conference fixed November 7 as the "African Information day"

Uganda Statement
Kampala Domestic Service in English 1400 GMT 11 Nov 77 LD/EA

[Summary] The OAU conference of ministers of information which has been
sitting in Kampala has ended with Uganda's delegation repeating President
Amin's offer that Uganda be a permanent home for the Pan-African news
agency. Uganda's minister of information and broadcasting said that Uganda
will continue to do everything possible to insure that the setting up of
the Pan-African news agency becomes a reality and continues to serve the
best interests of our people of Africa as a whole. Uganda will honor her
obligations and give the necessary facilities and other amenities which
may be required for the headquarters of the Pan-African news agency to
become operational.

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ROMANIA

BRIEFS

VIETNAM RADIO-TV AGREEMENT--Bucharest, AGERPRES, 11 Oct--An understanding

of collaboration in radio-television between the Romanian Radio-Television
and the Radio and Television Committee of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
has been signed in Bucharest. The document providés for intensified rela-
tions of collaboration between the two radio and TV bodies, of the exchange

of radio and TV programmes, [Text] [Bucharest AGERPRES in English 1135
GMT 10 Nov 77 LD]

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Natal meeting left optimistic about the prospects of Telebras contracting
more than 350,000 terminals in the coming year.

Minister Quandt de Oliveira gave assurance that '1978 will be a much less
difficult year than 1977 for Brazilian telecommunications," but he offered
little of a concrete basis to support that perspective. Telecommunications
did not receive any higher order of priority for public investment.

Sergio de Magalhaes, president of Standard Electric, believes that the big-
gest problem the sector faces stems from the extreme variations between sup-
ply and demand, between production and idle capacity, between plans and
reality. "It would have been better for us to have grown at a uniform rate,
say, 600,000 terminals per year, than to take leaps of about 1 million in
1973 and 1974 and then drop to almost zero this year.”

Those cyclic variations disorganize the industrial sector and raise the

price of the product. . But Sergio de Magalhaes believes that the unit cost

of 40,000 cruzeiros per telephone terminal installed cannot be considered
very high if compared with international prices, today close to $2,000.

“T believe it is even reasonable if we take into account the volume of Brazil-
ian production.’

Difficult Solutions

Telebras believes that its productivity indices are rising. and becoming
encouraging. What is needed to cope with the situation is “long-term loans,
with compatible need, and return of the FNT entirely to the sector.”

The anticipated revenue of the FNT in 1978 should exceed 9 billion cruzeiros.
But only 60 percent of that amount will be applied to telecommunications.
The "big fund” will get the 40 percent that could be invested in telecommuni-
cations, guaraateeing resumption of the 600,000 terminal per year rate of
growth of the telephone network.

Manoel Pio Correa, president of Siemens suggests the use of the French
system of leasing equipment as a complementary way speeding up the develop-
ment of the sector. As a matter of fact, France has expanded its telephone
network by more than 1.6 million terminals per year using the leasing of
centrals and other equipment. The only difference is thet for the French
Government telecommunications represents a number one priority in the
country's development programs and gets substantial budget support in addi-
tion to other sources of funds (capital market, funds, internal private
finencing, etc.).

The greatest concern about the level of productivity of the telecommunica-
tions companies was shown by the president of the Sao Paulo Telecommunications
Company (Telesp), economist Antonio Salles Leite, who asked at a certain
point: "What is the risk, what is the uncertainty of a government company
compared to a free enterprise company? In the case of telecommunications,

it is monopolistic on the one hand and monopsonic on the other. If it does

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and the associations and communities of the radio broadcasting organizations
in the republics and provinces be informed on the proposals adopted at
yesterday's meeting. It was proposed to hold a broader meeting in Zagreb
before the end of the year at which the possibilities for expanding the
cooperation among the local radio broadcasting organizations throughout the
country and their more direct and synchronized inclusion in the Yugoslav
radio and television network be more comprehensively discussed. Special
attention should be paid to the self-managing and interests organization or
the local radio broadcasting network in the spirit of the law on associated
labor.

In a broader exchange of views the past experiences in developing the local
radio network in the republics and provinces were very positively assessed.

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INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

UGANDA'S COMMENTS ON SATELLITE STATION TO SUDAN MINISTER
Kampala Domestic Service in English 1400 GMP 10 Nov 77 LD/BA

(summary] President amin met the Sudanese minister for culture and information, Mr
Bona Malwal, who thanked the president for having established in Arua the earth
satellite station, which will improve communications both in Uganda and southern
Sudan.

The minister said 1t would be a good idea for the two countries to exchange television
and radio programs, President Amin praised the good relatiens between Uganda and
Sudan, He said he had directed the Cabinet to insure that importers try to get supplies
from Sudan before loeking elsewhere.

later, the president met the director of the Harris Satellite Corporation, who was
accompanied by (?his) general manager. President Amin thanked them for the excellent

work they had dene, The corporation would be playing a big part in Uganda's
communications, he said,

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PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

PEKING HAILS DEVELOPMENTS IN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
Peking Domestic Service in Mandarin 1200 GMT 8 Nov 77 DW

{Recorded talk by (Li Hsih-lin), delegate of a certain scientific research
institute who attended the national electronics industry conference on
learning from Ta-ching: "Persist in Working Independently, Maintaining
the Initiative in Our Own Hands, and Relying on Our Own Efforts to Catch
Up and Surpass the Advanced World Levels in Science and Technology"]

[Text] Satellite communication as means of communications has developed
internationally in the early 1960's. Digital satellite communications came
into use in a number of countries towards the end of the 1960's and the
beginning of the 1970's. In order to dominate space, the two superpowers,
the Soviet Union and the United States, have developed many satellites.

To break the two superpowers' satellite monopoly and to catch up with and
surpass the advanced world levels in science and technology, our great leader
Chairman Mao approved in 1975 a research project on satellite communica-
ticus. Our ecteemed and beloved Premier Chou also attached’ great importance
to research and developments in satellite communications and related
projects. Chairman Mao's concern and the party's expectations of us greatly
encouraged the scientists and technicians. They said: "Since Chairman Mao
and the party Central Committee have shown great concern for satellite com-
munications, we must advance quickly to catch up with and surpass the
advanced world levels so as to win honor for Chairman Mao and for our
socialist motherland.

However, proceeding from their objective of usurping party and state power,
the vicious Gang of Four interfered with and sabotaged the development of
satellite communications by trotting out such fallacies as "up goes the
satellite, down plummets the red flag." The workers, cadres and scientific
and technological personnel of our institute who bitterly hated the Gang of
Four's perverse acts resolutely struggled against their interference and
sabotage under the leadership of the local party committee. To free China
from being backward in communications and to catch up with and surpass the
advanced world levels, they worked hard day and night in scientific research.

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INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS

PRC BROADCASTING DELEGATION FETED IN TOKYO

Peking NCNA in English 1211 GMI 9 Nov 77 WW

[Text] Tokyo, November 9, 1977 (HSINHUA)--The Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), the
Tokyo Broadcasting Service, the Japan Television Network and the National Asahi Broadcast-
ing Corporation jointly gave a reception here yesterday evening in honour of the Chinese
broadcasting delegation led by Chang Hsiang-shan.

Speaking on behalf of the host organizations, Chairman of the Japan Broadcasting Corpora -
tion Tomokazu Sakamoto said: Five years have elapsed since the normalization of the
diplomatic relations between Japan and China. Friendly intercourse between the two
countries has grown considerably in this period, Through the friendly visits and tele-
vision interviews in China, members of Japanese broadcasting and television circles
reported to the Japanese public what was going on in China, which has steadily increased
the Japanese people's interest in China, He wished a further increase in intercourse
between the broadcasting and television circles of the two countries.

Charg Hsiang-shan said in his speech: It is the wish of the Chinese broadcasting and TV
eircles to work indefatigably together with their Japanese counterparts through the power-
ful instrument of broadcasting and television for a fuller implementation and fulfillment
of the joint statement between the two governments, for a further development of their
friendly relations on the basis of this statement and for the friendship between the two
peoples lasting f.:om generation to generation,

Maruichi Maehara, Toshiaki Kamiko and Eizo Nakagawa, Japanese friends who are members of
the broadcasting and TV circles, were present at the party.

Chen Kang, counsellor of the Chinese Embassy was also present.

The Chinese broadcasting delegation has come for a visit at the invitation of Japan
Broadeasting Corporation, the Nagoya Broadcasting Company, the Mainichi Broadcasting
Company, the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation and the Yomiuri Television Station,

Prior to this Chang Hsiang-shan had led the Chinese journalists delegation which con-
eluded its visit yesterday.

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LIBYA

BRIEFS

UNDERSEA CABLE--The president of the Higher People's Committee for the
General Organization for Post and Telecommunications signed yesterday
morning in Tripoli a contract with the Japanese company Nippon Electric
for the installation of an undersea cable running between Tripoli and
Banghazi. The value of the contract is 11,744,787,812 Libyan dinars.
The above-mentioned company, according to the contract, must complete
this project within 19 months from the date of the contract. This cable
has a capacity of 900 telephone and telegraph channels as well as a channel
for audio-visual broadcasting. The importance of this project lies in
increasing the telephone and telegraph communications between the two
cities so that it will function as an alternative to the centimeter wave
systems along the Jamahiriyah's coast which were completed more than 3
years ago. This contract also requires the company to train nationals
for a period varying between 9 and 15 months in all operations connected
with -he maintenance and use of this system. [Text] [Tripoli AL-FAJR
AL-JADID in Arabic 6 Nov 77 p 1]

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BRAZIL

TWO NEW COMPUTER FIRMS T° BE NATIONALLY CONTROLLED
Sao Paulo 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Porturuese 18 Oct 77 p 31

[Text] The president of the Brazilian Computer Corporation (COBRA), Carlos
Augusto Rodrigues de Carvalho, said yesterday that within a few years when
the national computer industry is consolidated and has developed its own
technology, the sector may be able to handle a large multinational company.
But for the time being, he stressed, it is better for the two new companies
that will enter the market to be genuinely national because the presence of
a large foreign company could result in a monopoly.

Carlos Augusto's statement, made yesterday at the 10th National Data Process-
ing Congress inaugurated by Finance Minister Murilo Macedo, runs counter to
the viewpoint of many directors of multinational companies present at the
meeting. One of them, for example, declared that the conditions of competi-
tion opened up by the Electronic Processing Activities Coordination Commis-
sion (CAPRE) are completely at variance with the rules of the capitalist
system, "I do not agree with the establishment of new computer factories

by imposition," stressed that businessman. “It is the law of the marketplace
that should decide what is the «ppropriate number of units.

"The authorities in the sector have now taken on a fight with 14 companies
because of the 16 bids only two will be accepted. It is the capitalist
system that selects the market, not the government.”

Greeting congress participants, Secretary Murilo Macedo said that Brazil

has already passed the phase of utilizing the computer as a mere status
symbol and is decisively entering a phase of a more rational utilization

of available equipment. “I do not hesitate to say that in that field also
Brazil will continue to grow at significant rates, increasingly consolidating
what is now an incipient industry,” he declared.

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CONTENTS (Continued)
JORDAN

Briefs
Jordan Relay Station in Aqaba

LIBYA

Briefs
Undersea Cable

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

OAU To Establish Pan-African News Agency
(Various sources, various dateS) .sscececececcccccceces

Amin Speech, Other Proceedings
Uganda Statement

Uganda's Comments on Satellite Station to Sudan Minister
(Kampala Domestic Service, 10 Nov 77) secceccccccccecee

CHAD
Planetarium To Be Opened in Soviet Tracking Station
(INFO TCHAD, 13 Oct 77) ...
GHANA
Official Speaks at Kampala Meeting in Support of PANA
(GWA, 10 NOV 77) ssccccccccccccsccccacsuseccenccceceeee
UGANDA

Foundation Stone Laid for Earth Satellite Station
(VOICE OF UGANDA, various dates) .cccccceccccccecceccee

Communication To Improve, Editorial
New Name

USSR

Briefs
TV Stations in East

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CONTENTS (Continued) Page
MALAYSIA

Ericsson Company Has Major Role in Malaysian Telecommunications
(Ho Kin Chai; BUSINESS TIMES, 29 Sep 77) sccccacceccoes 8

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Peking Hails Developments in Satellite Communications
(Li Hsih-lin; Peking Domestic Service, 8 Nov 77) ...ee. 10

VIETNAM

Radio, TV Commission Holds Conference in Ho Chi Minh City
(Ho Chi Minh City Domestic Service, 8 Nov 77) saececcee 12

EASTERN EUROPE
ROMANIA

Briefs
Vietnam Radio-TV Agreement 13

YUGOSLAVIA

More Unified Yugoslav Radio-Television System Discussed
(BORBA, 20 Oct 77) ...

fe cecerccnccecceecccensnonce 14

'TANJUG! Modernizes Its Technical Equipment
(TANJUG, 14 NOV 77) secccconcccucceccscceccccorseeccece 16

LATIN AMERICA

BRAZIL

Telecommunications Sector Facing Financing Problems
(O ESTADO DE SAO PAULO, 23 Oct 77) seccccccecccecccocee 17

Service Might Deteriorate
Ericsson Company Optimistic

Two New Computer Firms To Be Nationally Controlled
(O ESTADO DE £AO PAULO, 18 Oct 77) cecececcocencceeceee 22

NEAR EAST & NORTH AFRICA
INTER~ARAB AFFAIRS

Briefs
Syrian Official in Baghdad 23

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Scientific research has been emancipated with the smashing of the Gang of
Four. After smashing the Gang of Four with one b’ow, the party Central Com-
mittee headed by Chairman Hua removed the obstacle which hindered develop-
ments in science and technology, much to the satisfaction of the masses of
scientific and technological personnel. Guided by Chairman Hua's strategic
policy decision on grasping the key link in running the country well, they
successfully completed a research Project, a task assigned them by the
party, after launching a few big campaigns. The construction of the satel-
lite ground station is a great victory for Chairman Mao's principle of
"Maintaining independence and keeping the initiative in our own hands and
relying on our own efforts" and a great victory for our extensive communist
cooperation launched in our superior socialist system. The design and con-
struction of the ground station and the research and the manufacturing of
the necessary equipment were carried out with the cooperation and support

of fraternal units in 14 provinces and municipalities throughout the country.
By their cooperation and support, they have made outstanding contributions
to speeding up the research and construction of the satellite ground station.

Our experience in building the satellite ground station tells us that if we
proceed from the actual conditions in our country, cherish lofty aspirations,
maintain independence and keep the initiative in our own hands and rely on
our own efforts and follow China's own road of developing science and tech—
nology, we can overcome all difficulties and can scale all heights in
science. It is the sacred duty for us who are working on the science and
technology front to achieve the four modernizations and advance scientific
research in order to catch up with and surpass the advanced world levels.
The party Central Committee's circular on convening a national conference
on science has greatly inspired our comrades who are fighting on the front-
line of scientific research. We will resolutely respond to the call of the
party Central Committee, work hard to scale the heights of science in the
world, march toward the modernization of science and technology and make
contributions in order to achieve the four modernizations,

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INTERNATIONAL

BRIEFS

UGANDAN ACCORD WITH MENA --The minister of information and broadcasting,
Col Juma Oris, has signed an agreement with the Middle East News Agency to
supply Uganda with news and features from the Arab world. The signing
followed recent discussions between officials of the Information and Broad-
casting Ministry and MENA in Cairo. Col Juma Oris said that since MENA is an
important news agency in the Middle East, Uganda will have the opportunity
of receiving correct information about the Arab world which hitherto had
not been possible through the imperialist news agencies. In reply, the
chairman of the MENA board, Mr Muhammad ‘Abd al-Jawad, said the signing was
an historic moment in the cooperation-between the Arab world and Uganda in
news dissemination. Touching on the deliberations of the OAU information
ministers conference, Mr al-Jawad said the offer to house the headquarters
of the Pan-African News Agency [PANA] in Uganda was an appropriate one.
Egypt's support for Uganda in the regard was a sincere gesture on her belief
in Uganda as a truly nonalined country and which, therefore, is suitable
for. the location of the PENA headquarters. {Kampala Domestic Service in
English 1400 GMT 12 Nov 77]

LIBYA-JAPAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS--Tokyo, Nov 12--Nippon Electric Co and Fujitsu
Ltd have won a Libyan order to lay a telephone and color television trans-
mission cable linking the ports of Tripoli to Benghazi under the Mediterranean
Sea. It was announced Friday the 700-kilometer submarine cable will have a
capacity of transmitting 900 telephone circuits and one TV channel. The

deal, valued at about 10 billion yen (roughly 40 million dollars), calls for
marine surveys, cable laying and training of workers plus maintenance ser-
vices for 2 years after completion. Scheduled for mid-June 1979 the order
came from Libya's Posts and Telecommunication Corp. [Text] [Tokyo KYODO in
English 0905 GMT 12 Nov 77 OW]

TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK PROPOSED--The French delegation headed by
Secretary of State Deniau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs proposed the
installation of a telecommunications network connecting all the nations
on the Persian Gulf during its visit to the United Arab Emirates. [Text]

[Paris ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALITES in French 11 Nov 77 p 6]

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BRAZIL

TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR FACING FINANCING PROBLEMS

'

Service Might Deteriorate
Sao Paulo 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 23 Oct 77 p 39

[Text] The federal government is not investing in telecommunications. For
that reason, all funds applied to the sector are paid exclusively by the
user of the services, either in the form of rising rates, surcharges (such
as the National Telecommunications Fund -= FNT) or in the form of self-
financing (compulsory stock subscription in order to be entitled to a tele-
phone, for example).

The equipment-producing industry has encountered greater difficulties in
the last 3 years. Orders for telephones have dropped from year to year
since 197). The affiliated companies of the Brazilian Telecommunications
Corporation (‘Telebras) have had to resort to foreign loans to proceed with
their plans and to maintain industrial production at minimal tolerable
levels.

Thousands of technicians and specialists have left the sector. There is
unei ployment and underemployment in all the equipment-manufacturing indus-
trial companies. Nevertheless, the government, which holds the telecommuni-
cations services monopoly, does not make budgetary appropriations for in-
vestment in the sector nor does it assign it any priority.

For that reason, in the specific case of telephone services, the user will
have new burdens in the coming months. “It will come out of their hide,”
said a government technician. "The citizen who uses the telephone will con-
tinue to pay alone for the installation, operation and expansion of the
system."

In closing the Sixth Telebrazil Panel in Natal early last week, the secre-
tary general of the Ministry of Communications, Romulo Vill=r Furtado,
announced the magic formulas for obtaining the minimum funds needed for
Brazilian telecommunications:

-- Increasing telephone rates (in addition to the 15 percent already in

effect) beginning in April 1978 in order to permit the nominal increase of
the companies’ operational revenue by 40 percent;

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GREECE

BRIEFS

TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT. FACTORY--The intention to establish a factory
for the production of electronic telecommunication equipment will probably
be announced later today jointly by the vice minister of communications,

Mr A. Tsaldaris, the governor of the ETVA, Mr Spendzas and a representative
of 0.T.E. The factory will produce automatic telephone exchanges and will
be ready in 3 years, It is expected to cost Drs 600 million. The value

of annual production will be of the order of Drs 1.5 million. International
invitation to tenders will follow, for selection of the technology to be
used. [Text] [Athens HELLENEWS-EXPRESS in English 13 Oct 77 p 10]

TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT COMPANY FORMED--Articles of association were
signed on 13 October for the new state-owned agency which, in the form of

a joint stock company, is to found the electronic telecommunications
industry in Greece. The Hellenic Industrial Development Bank has subscribed
to 55 percent of the Drs 400 million share capital and 0.T.E. (the Tele-
comm nications Organization) has taken on the remaining 45 percent, hence

it is an entirely state-owned concern. The former will appoint the managing
director and three more directors to the company's board while 0.T.E. will
appoint the general technical manager and three directors to the board.

The company's maragement will hasten selection of the technology to be
used, in order that final proposals may be drafted for implementing the
project. [Text] [Athens HELLENEWS=EXPRESS in English 20 Oct 77 p 4]

cso: 5500

40



INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

CAMBODIA-PRC TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS--A ceremony was held in Phnom
Penh in the afternoon of 10 November for the signing of the protocols of
the opening of telecommunications links between democratic Cambodia and

the PRC. On that occasion, Comrade Mey Prang, chairman of the Committee for
Communications, represented the Cambodian side while Comrade Chi Tui-
Chao, deputy director general of telecommunications of the Ministry of

Post and Telecommunications of the PRC, represented the Chinese side. They
signed the protocols on establishing official and normal telecommunications
links between democratic Cambodia and the PRC. [Excerpt][Phnom Penh Domestic
Service in Cambodian 2300 GMT 11 Nov 77 BH

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INTER-ASIAN AFFATRS

PRC TELECOMMUNICATIONS DELEGATION DEPARTS CAMBODIA
Peking NCNA in English 1558 GMI 12 Nov 77 OW

{vext] Peking, November 12, 1977 (HSINHUA)--The telecommunications delegation of the
People's Republic of China led by Chi Tul-chao, deputy director-general Of telecommunt ~
cations of tho Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, left Phnom Penh for home today
after a frienitly visit to Democratic Cambodia, according to a report from that city.
The delegation was seen off at the airport by leading cadres of the Committee of
Communications, and the Foreign Ministry, of the Cambodian Government, and Chinese
Ambassador to Cambodia Sun Mio,

It was received and feted by Teng Sary, deputy prime minister in charge of foreign
affairs, yesterday evening. And the Chinese ambassador gave a banduet for the delegation
on the evening of November 10,

The delegation ayvrived in Cambodia on October 29. It had discussions with the departuen:
concerned of the Democratic Cambodian Government about setting up a telecommunication
line between the two countries. ‘The two sides signed on November 10 a "protocol on
setting up a telecommunication line between the People's Republic of Chima and the
Democratic Cambodia."

During its stay in the country, the delegation visited Phnom Penh. Kowpong To...
the Temple of Angkor Wat ani water conservancy projects

CSO: 5500


FRANCE

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS COMPUTER PRODUCTION REPORTED
Paris ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALITES in French 14 Oct 77 pp 1, 13

[Article by D. Levy: "CIT-ALCATEL Anticipates Producing 30 to 100 cS-40
Computers a Year, Starting in 1979, for Switching"]

[Text] Fayard, assistant general manager of CIT-ALCATEL [International Tele-
Phone Company-Alsatian Company for Atomic, Telecommunications and Electronic
Construction], took stock, on 6 October, of the technological evolution under-
gone by the company's switching activity. In addition to the development and
evolution of the E-10 and E-12 telephone systems, CIT-ALCATEL committed itself
to the production of telecommunications computers, after the agreement signed
on 16 May of this year with CII-HB [International Data Processing Company-
Honeywell Bull] on the CO-40. CIT-ALCATEL decided to mass-produce this com-
puter starting in 1978, when five units are scheduled, and it envisions an
annual production of 30 to: 100 cOo-40 during the next few years.

The CS-40 computer, which is designed especially to equip high capacity elec-
tronic exchanges (E-12 type), was developed originally by the CII for CIT
ALCATZL, which was itself designing the E-12 system under contract with the
CNET [National Center for Telecommunications Studies]. Of the 400 to 500 mil-
lion francs that the development of E-12 will cost altogether, over half the
credits have already been spent, including 70 to 80 million francs for the
CS-40 computer. +

Once the CS-40 reached the industrialization stage, it was, therefore, taken
up by CIT-ALCATEL, after its agreement with CII-HB, in addition to the teams
that developed the machine and all the facilities enabling CIT-ALCATEL to
master the system. This agreement enables the company also to have the sup-
port of CII-HB during the next few years, in order to make it possible for
CIT-ALCATEL to develop its telecommunications computers in accordance with
the most advanced techniques of data-processing. '

Development Plan
The first five CS-40 units have already been manufactured at CII and are equip-

ping, at present, the CIT-ALCATEL test facilities and the prototype plant for
the E-12 system.

36



JORDAN

BRIEFS

JORDAN RELAY STATION IN AQABA-- The Broadcasting Service of the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan has installed a new relay station to boost its radio
transmission in Aqaba and the surrounding area. Director General of the
Broadcasting Service Nasuh al-Majali said that the relay station, which
was installed at the instructions of His Majesty King Husayn, began opera-
ting with outstanding efficiency several weeks ago. He explained that for
the first time radio transmissions will reach Aqaba at the same strength
of transmissions received in other areas of the country. He said the
relay station was installed as a gesture of auspiciousness on the birthday
of His Majesty King Husayn and the celebrations that will take place in
Aqaba on this occasion. Al-Majali said other arrangements are being taken

to provide the Aqaba relay station with a frequency modulation transmitter.

He expressed hope that this will be done in the next 6 months due to
Aqaba's importance as.a seaport and tourist town. [Text] [Amman Domestic
Service in Arabic 1600 GMT 12 Nov 77 JN]

csO: 5500

24



PORTUGAL

BRIEFS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IMPROVEMENTS--The Portuguese Post, Telephone, and Tele-
graph Service (CTI-TLP) has decided to modernize its telephone network by
installing electronic exchanges and slowly replacing the electromechanical
exchanges. Furthermore, the CTT's investment plan for the period 1978-1981
reaches 15 million contos. The telecommunications part of the plan is
geared toward the installment of 155,000 new telephone lines, 5,400 tele-
printer circuits, the complete automation of the national network and the
improvement of the intercity service. The part of the investment allocated
to the mail service will be used in motorization, mechanization and the
automation of mail handling. [Text] [Paris ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALITES in
French 11 Nov 77 p 8]

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41



INTER~ARAB AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

SYRIAN OFFICIAL IN BAGHDAD--Baghdad, 12 November--Ahmad Qanbar, liaison
director at the Syrian Ministry of Communications, arrived there today at
the head of a delegation to discuss the implementation of the project for
linking Iraq with Syria via a communications network of microwave and co-
axial cable. Iraq last week signed a contract with a foreign company under
which the company will install a coaxial cable from Baghdad to al-Ga'im
town on the Iraqi~Syrian border. [Text] [Baghdad INA in Arabic 1325 GMT

12 Nov 77 JN]

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CONTENTS (Continued) Page

WESTERN EUROPE

FRANCE

Telephone Systems Computer Production Reported

(D. Levy; ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALITES, 14 Oct 77) .... 36
Briefs
Switchboards Installed for Navy 39
Franco~Venezuelan Cooperation 39
Aid for Yemen 39
GREECE
Briefs
Telecommunication Equipment Factory 40
Telecommunication Equipment Company Formed 40
PORTUGAL
Briefs
Telecommunications Improvements 41
TURKEY
Briefs
Turkish-German Communications 42
Kastamonu TV Reception 42


YUGOSLAVIA

MORE UNIFIED YUGOSLAV RADIO-TELEVISION SYSTEM DISCUSSED
Belgrade BORBA in Serbo-Croatian 20 Oct 77 p 8 AU
[TANJUG Report]

[Text] Novi Sad, 19 October--In all republics and provincés the local
radio broadcasting network has become a very important information medium
of the working people and citizens, and has made a great contribution to
the further development of the system of information throughout the country
in accordance with the constitutional principles and documents of the socio-
political organizations.

This was stressed yesterday at a meeting of representatives of the republican
and provincial communities and associations of radio broadcasting organiza-
tions in Novi Sad. The meeting devoted attention to expanding cooperation
between local radio stations, to a more complete and more effective infor-
mation activity coming from the lowest level, the source of life, and from
work collectives and communes.

It was stresscd that in further developing information media, it is necessary
to achieve the situation where information coming from the republic and pro-
vincial centers and the information coming from cities and villages,
communes, regions and work collectives are considered equally important.

As was said, radio stations should broadcast programs on developments in both
directions. The delegate system also points to this practice.

For this reason at this meeting, it was requested that a broader discussion
of the position of local radio stations in the overall information system,
particularly in the Yugoslav radio and television network, should begin. The
goal is to create a unified radio broadcasting system throughout the country,
both regarding the linkage of the so-called central radio stations in the
republic and provincial centers with the local radio stations, as well as
regarding the cooperation of work and technical equipment of broadcasting
points in cities and. communes.

It was concluded that the leaderships of the socialist alliance in the feder-
ation, republics and provinces, the Yugoslav radio and television community

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GHANA

OFFICIAL SPEAKS AT KAMPALA MEETING IN SUPPORT OF PANA
Accra GNA in English 1600 GMT 10 Nov 77 LD

[Text] Ampala, 10 Nov, GNA--The United Nations Educational Scientific
and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Economic Commission for Africa
(ECA) have pledged support for the establishment of Pan-African News
Agency (PANA).

The two organisations made their pledges at the current Conference of
Ministers of Information of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) here.

Mr Alex Quarmyne, UNESCO's observer delegate told the conference that’ his
organisation attached importance to the conference because of the need to
work towards the achievement of a new world information order,

He assured the ministers that his organisation would continue to monitor
activities on the establishment of PANA and within the limits of the or-
ganisation work closely with various organisations and bodies working
towards PAN4'’s birth,

In his contribution to the conference, Ghana's commissioner for informa-
tion, Colonel Parker Yarney, regretted that 14 years after the idea of
PANA was conceived, "We are yet to realise the take-off of such an ob-
viously invaluable project."

He said: "Our ambivalence would have been understandable if realities of
our circumstances had changed, but these have not changed and they demand
that we establish now such an agency."

Coi Yarney declared that as a first step there should be an increase in
cooperation among the present national news agencies in Africa by means
of exchange of news stories and personnel.

"It is our conviction that the bedrock upon which a news pool and then
a Pan-African News Agency could be built would undoubtedly be intra-
African communication linkages," he added,

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UGANDA

FOUNDATION STONE LAID FOR EARTH SATELLITE STATION
Communication To Improve
Kampala VOICE OF UGANDA in English 8 Nov 77 pp 4, 6

[Baitorial in "VOICE Periscope" colum: "Mass Media Giant Step Forwara"7

ffext] THE foundation stone of the Earth
Satellite Station” ’at ~Ombaci,
Arua, has .been laid by Life
President Amin. To witness the
highlight of this occasion were,
significantly, the... Ministers’ of
Information from OAU member
states, who have come to discuss
the very subject for which
Uganda decided to erect - this
advanced communications -unit:
Independent dissemination and
receiving of news and reports by
the African states.

In the wake of the recent breakage of
the East African Community, tbe
erection of this station is very
opportune and desirable. Not
only that. At this stage of deve-
lopment it is only appropriate
that we directly communicate
with the outside world. This is
now possible without having to
pass through Longonot, Kenya,
as before.

This station is monumental and a big
milestone in the mass media
technological development of our
country. In itself, it is a quantum
jump in the telecommunications
system in Uganda.

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not pay its bills properly its stock is usually not subject to a lien.
What risk of failing do they run, for example? What risk do they confront
in the face of technological progress?

To compensate for such distortions, according to Salles Leite, the state
company shouid “carry out investments, research or other activities that by
its nature private enterprise is not in a position to carry out.”

The president of Telesp considers that in the present situation, although
self-financing is necessary, "it is an inadequate process” for the expan-
sion needs of the Brazilian telephone services because the shares that ore
conveyed, almost always with great delay, do not guarantee a profit or
reasonable liquidity. For that reason, he suggests the adoption of deben-
tures and even of Readjustable National Tre:sury Bonds (ORTN) to create
new incentives for public participation in teleconmunications investment.

Professor Octavio Gouvea de Bulhoes believes concern for the stockholders
and regard for the return on those bonds is fundanental in the process of
attracting funds for expansion, including the telecommunications sector.

But the stte company is not prepared, nor does it inspire public confidence
because in general “its leaders do not act simply as administrators but as
the government; that is, they do not take into account productivity, effi-
ciency and profitability on a priority basis. In the state company, the
recourse to subsidized rates and political standards of management is much
easier and more frequent, ' observes Professor Bulhoes.

FNT, Absurd Example

Even assuming the absolute control of the country's telecommunications sys-
tem, the government does not grant the support that the sector requires as
an infrastructural element, as a basic economic and social development
factor. Communications have been nationalized but they still do not receive
the compatible treatment they deserve.

An example of the strange rules that prevail in government investment pro-
grams has been the National Telecommunications Fund. Created in 1967, the
FST was supposed to furnish funds for the establishment of the Brazilian
Telecommunications Company's (Embratel) system and, supplenentarily, for
the support of other areas of the country's public telecommunications ser-
vices.

The FNT is a fund but it does not have borrowers. It collects a surtax
levied on any telecommunications services. But it does not give anything
in exchange, as occurred vith the capital funds of the Brazilian Petroleum
Corporation (Petrobras) c. the Brazilian Electric Pover Corporation
(Electrobras).

But that is only the juridical or legal aspect. Now the FNT is readjusted

or modified by directive, like a simple rate or tax. Worse still, the FHT
funds (more than 5 billion cruzeiros this year) are handled in complete

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FRANCE

BRIEFS

SWITCHBOARDS INSTALLED FOR NAVY--TIT [expansion unknown] and Cap Sogeti/Lo-
giciel [software] announce the placing in operation of TIT-7840 telegraph mes-
sage switchboards connected to the French Navy telegraph network. This equip-
ment, which was the subject of an approximately 3.5-million-franc contract and
which is intended for handling a large number of subscribers, is extremely
compact and provides considerable service availability. Thus, a TIT-7840 unit
in duplex configuration with tripping and automatic reset, equipped with

2 X 256 K eight-bit bytes memory and 256 telegraph lines, is contained en-
tirely in a single 36-U (1.60 meter) cabinet, including subscriber telegraph
connection equipment, and requiring no special climate precautions or power
supply (auxiliary battery incorporated). The TIT-7840 system handles alter-
nate or duplex subscribers at speeds of 50 to 200 bauds and 1,200-baud con-
necting lines. The handling and transmission capacity is 85,000 700-character
messages a day. The operating software is designed around a multitask real
time control device for telecommunications. This offers great modularity for
implementing new procedures or new services. The TIT-7840 switchboard does
not require the constant presence of operating personnel, owing to its self~
supervision and automatic reconfiguration. [Text] [Paris ELECTRONIQUE AC-
TUALITES in French 21 Oct 77 p 10] 10042

FRANCO-VENEZUELAN COOPERATION--A cooperation agreement for the purpose of de-
veloping economic and industrial relations between France and Venezuela was
signed in Caracas by Andre Rossi, minister of foreign trade, and Jorge Gomez,
minister of foreign affairs of Venezuela. Under the terms of this agreement,
consisting of eight articles including one concerning the telecommunications
sector, coordination of exchange and general evaluation of cooperation will
be ensured by means of joint meetings. [Text] [Paris ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALITES
in French 21 Oct 77 p 2] 10042

AID FOR YEMEN--Negotiations between the Ministry of Economy and Finance and

the Yemen Arab Republic conce rning privileged credits for the purpose of finan-
cing the achievement of a rixed telephone and television microwave network

in the Yemen Arab Republic ended in the signing of a protocol by which France
grants the Yemeni Government financial facilities amounting to a total of

120 million francs, of which 35 million francs are a Treasury loan. This
information is to be put together with the order amounting to 280 million
francs obtained from Yemen by CIT-ALCATEL at the head of a consortium of French
companies and aiming at providing that country with a complete telecommunica-
tions network (t2lephone and television). [Text] [Paris ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALI-
TES in French 21 Oct 77 p 2] 10042

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CIT-ALCATEL has now decided to start mass production of CS~40 in its Velizy
plant, starting next year. Five units are scheduled in 1978, two of which are
for the first E-12 exchange ordered by PTT [Postal and Telecommunications Ad-
ministration] and which will be put in operation at Massy, in October 1979, and
the other three for the C-PUCE (electronization of Ucossbar exchanges) mockups ~-
see ELECTRONIQUE ACTUALITES for 11 May 1977). In 1979, 15 computers will come
off the production line and production will progressively reach rates of 30 to
100 machines a year, depending on the development of the various programs using
this computer (E-12 and C-PUCE).

According to Fayard, "this bracket of 30 to 100 a year is reasonable for manu-
facturing the CS-40.under competitive conditions." Depending on the configu-
ration and rate of manufacture of the computer, its cost will range from
500,000 francs, for example, for a C-PUCE version, to 1.5 million francs. In
the C-12 configuration, the estimate is from 1 to 1.5 million francs.

CIT-ALCATEL has also drawn up a CS-40 development plan, entailing the use of
new technologies and a high degree of specialization in telecommunications ap-
plication. This will lead to a reduction in the size and price of the compu-
ter.

In an initial stage, scheduled for the end of 1978, the 1-K housings (INTEL
[International Telecommunications] will be replaced with 4-K housings (INTEL
or Texas), in the central memory, the mass memory drum will be replaced with
fixed-head disks and small-sized magnetic tape unreeling devices will be in-
troduced. These modifications will make it possible to decrease from 9 cabi-
nets at present (5 CS-40 cabinets and 4 magnetic tape unreeling devices) to
4 cabinets (for a specific reference configuration) .

In a second stage, scheduled for the end of 1979, a new input-outlet system
(by replacing the present exchange unit and associated relay units) more spe-
cialized in telephony. The computer display will, then, no longer consist of
more than 3 CS-40 cabinets). .

Let us note that the SEMS [expansion unknown] plant in Toulouse will be asso-
ciated in producing the CS-40 by supplying the "coppers" to CIT-ALCATEL (es-
pecially multilayered circuits, going up to 11 layers).

One Million E-10 Lines on Order

When he brought up the strategy of CIT-ALCATEL with regard to switching, Fayard
stressed three guidelines: the choice of temporal technology and technologi-
cal independence will make it possible to tackle the whole international mar-
ket freely, and the company’s very decentralized industrial structure.

On the first point, Fayard pointed out, on the one hand, that all the large
builders in the world submitted temporal systems, even in the planning stage,
in 1977, and, on the other hand, that a very large number of countries are
contemplating equipping themselves with a temporal system. With a million
E-10 lines in operation or on order at the end of this year and the progressive

37


INDONESIA

BRIEFS

AMBON-JAKARTA TELEPHONE LINK--Ambon, Oct 31--Ambon town will, starting November 1, 1977,
become the 15th in Indonesia to be accessible by SLJJ (long distance direct communication).
Formerly this town had to be reached from other places in the country only by the ordinary
interlocal phone connection system and by common telegrams. Noerhadi, head of the Maluku
telecommunications area, told the press here Friday that the SLJJ network to be officially
opened November 1 will link Ambon with Ujungpandang, Surabaya and Jakarta. Communications
with other towns and cities will still have to use the old interlocal system. [Excerpt]
[Jakarta ANTARA in English 0955 GMT 31 Oct 77 BK]

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CSO:

Besdies Malaysia, the
LM Ericsoon Telephone
company has factoriesin
Europe, the United
States, Jatin America,
Asia and Australasia.
Some of the largest com-

nies of the’ Ericsson

‘roup outside Sweden
today are found in Fran-
ce, Brazil, Italy, Spain,
Australia and_ Mexico.
Today, the Ericsson
name means tele-,
communications in over :
90 countries. And it is one |
of the few organisations
in ue, world with gheica:
pacity to plan, design,
manufacture and install
a complete tele-
communications pack-
age practically any-
where. bey

The transition from a
sniall two-man enterpri-

“se in 1876 to global opera-

tions is the result of ima-
ginative research, high
manufacturing stan-
dards and superior cus-
tomer service. Impor-
tant to Ericsson's growth -
has-been the ability to
analyse communication |
needs and to develop the |
most appropriate solu-
tions to specific prob-
fems _ in terme of pall: !
ys fe, compatibili-
ty with existing equip-
ment and awareness of
probable technical ad-
vances in the future.
‘The costs for research ,
and -development in a

5500

new genration of tele-
phone switching system
(telephone exchange) to-
day is about M$500 mil-
lion. It is beyond the
means of an individual
domestic supplier to un-
dertake such a project.
The degree of autonomy
in each individual com-
any in the Ericsson
Group depends on fac-
tors such as annual turn-
over, the availability of
skilled local engineers,
machinery and compo-
nents for production.
The new and signifi-
cant term in telephony is
Stored Programme Con-
trol (SPC) which implies

‘a telephone exchange

system in which opti-
mum utilisation hag been
made of the latest in
electronic componenet
technology to design a
large capacity special
purpose computer for
control of the connection
of telephone calls. The
SPC control provides fa-
cilities to the telephone
administration to study
the quality of service
extended by the tele-.
phone network to the
subscribers and to pro-
gramme new orders
about call routing, char-
ing and the like to the
elephone exchange
from a national or regio-
nal operations centre.
The computerised
SPC system is highly
“intelligent” and the op-
eration staff can commu-
nicate with the system
from a teleprinter which,
over radio links or ca-
bles, may be remotely
laced in relation to the
ifferent telephone
exchanges. SPC techni-
que also reduces apace
requirements, and provi-
des new subscriber ser-
vices, lower overall op-
erational costs, and high-
er speed operation in
connection of calls.
Future telephone
exchanges can be adap-
ted to a new technique
{or transmission of hu-
nan speech in a coded
form over -cables and
carrier channels through

a new device called digi-
tal swit-hing or time di-
vision. 4uis echnique in-
creases the capacity of
the cable network and it
also improves the quali-
ty of speech trans-
mission, especially over
long lines, so that the
subscribers talking to
each other will experien-
ce a more comfortable
audibility.

The digital switching
will also make it possible
to do away with all
electron-mechanical
components in a tele-
phone exchange so that
eventually not only the
control of the exchange
speech network but also

esign of the speech net-
work itself can be imple-
mented by the use of the
static electronic compo-
nents.

‘The L.M Ericsson Tel-;
ephone company has al-
ready, expressed its wil-
lingness to make the
modern SPC-systems
available to Malaysia as
soon as the Malaysian
telephone adminis-
tration decides to enter
the new era of telephony.

The introduction of
the SPC telephone sys-
tems means more than
the opening up of a new
production line and in-
vestments in equipment
and technique for prod-
uction and testing of
computer-type products.
Along with manufac-
turing and marketing of
this type of systems fol-
lows a demand for engi-
neering knowledge in all
aspects of modern com-
puter techniques such as
system structure, desi;
of hardware and soft-
ware programmes, han-
dling of programmes, se-
curity aspects in regard
to the ease of access to
the “brain” of the tele-
phone systems. Thus, the
introduction of SPC tech-
nique into the Malaysian
telephone network would
bring along with it the
transfer of skills in all
areas of engineering and
production.


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This new installation is distinguished by a shining dome that covers the
planetarium house. And everything is seen on this dome, from the inside.
The house holds the planetarium equipment and a cortrol panel. The apparat~
us, made by an East German firm, has 31 spherical units representing various
regions of the sky. Each division of the sky is shown on a very, very thin
metallic transparency. When the house is closed and the lights are out,

two green letters symbolizing the North Pole and the South Pole stand out.
A bright light then projects the 31 transparencies on the inner surface of
the dome of the planetarium, and the 5,000 stars visible to the naked eye
begin to twinkle against the black background created by the darkness. The
sky can be seen as it appears above the North Pole, at Ndjamena, at the
South Pole, or at any other point on Earth.

Bright lines symbolize the equator, the position of the sun, a satellite
orbit, etc. The planetarium apparatus can simulate a 24-hour Earth revolu-
tion in 3-1/2 minutes. In a few minutes it can even reproduce an Earth
revolution about the axis of our galaxy, which actually takes 26,000 years.
Finally, images of five other planets: Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, and
Venus can also be seen in this planetarium.

The training programs for Soviet cosmonauts always include an observation
period in the planetarium in order to familiarize the voyagers with the sky.
The Ndjamena planetarium is the only one in Equatorial Africa. After its
opening tomorrow, Soviet specialists will schedule lectures to permit the
Chadians to "become atquainted with the sky."

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-- ae) costly interurban calls, especially between nearby cities (1,2 and 3
levels);

~- Increasing the percentage of the FNT surcharge on the cost of local ser-
vices from 20 to 30 percent;

-- Introduction of the system of charging rates for local calls on a time-
elapsed basis, ‘minute by minute,” like a taxi meter, which will certainly
raise telephone bills. Today there is no time limit on local calls: each
call costs only 1 cruzeiro, whether it lasts 10 seconds or 2 hours. A new
directive from the Ministry of Communications will permit charging a unit
cost for each minute or fraction of time for local calls.

Self-financing is now more expensive, with reduction of the maximum term
[for stock purchase] from 36 monthly installments, which was in effect

until the first half of the year, to 24, In order to be entitled to a
telephone, the citizen is obliged to subscribe to about 20,000 cruzeiros'
worth of Telebras companies’ stock. But each line costs the telephone com-
panies about 40,000 cruzeiros, counting the investments made in the telephone
central, the cables and external network, property and rights of way, and
intercity and international systems. In view of this, each company must
utilize loans and FT funds to finance expansion in addition to reinvesting
the possible surpluses of its operational revenue.

Beginning this year, instead of channeling some additional funds to the
telecommunications sector, the federal government began to withdraw 2 sub-
stantial part of the NT for investments in other sectors through the
National Development Fund (the “big fund"). About 30 percent of the FNT
was thus allocated for other purposes.

In order to reinforce investments for 1978, the ifinistry of Communications
has already obtained authorization for the issuance of 300 million cruzeiros'
worth of debentures and to obtain a foreign loan of about $150 million (2.3
billion cruzeiros).

The budget approved by the Secretariat of Planning reached the 42 billion
eruzeiro ceiling, 27 billion cruzeiros of which are intended for the pay-
ment of contracts already in process and only 2.7 billion for new investments
or industrial orders. The participation of the federal government will not
exceed 1 percent of those investments.

Reduced Growth

The nunber of telephone terminals contr=cted each year has decreased since
1974, According to Teleb-as data, the development of new contracts has been
as follows: 1974, 1,061,000; 1975, 505,000; 1976, 345,000; 1977, 245,000.

For an industry with the potential capacity to produce more than 1 million

telephone terminals per year, the situation becomes critical in vie of the
constant tendency to fewer orders. Even so, many businessmen present at the

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TURKEY

BRIEFS

TURKISH-GERMAN COMMUNICATIONS--Berlin (HURRIYET) Semi-automatic telephone
conversations between Federal Germany and Turkey have recently begun, and
tie-ins have been established in 14 provinces of Turkey. Turkish cities
thus far connected to this semi-automatic telephone system are Istanbul,
Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Adapazari, Aydin, Bursa, Canakkale, Corlu, Eskisehir,
Izmit, Kayseri, Konya, and Luleburgaz. Those calling Turkey from West
Germany dial the number 0010 and give the German Post Office the desired
Turkish telephone number. Postal officials ring the number and the con-
nection is made without delay. [Excerpts] [Istanbul HURRIYET in Turkish
9 Nov 77 p 3]

KASTAMONU TV RECEPTION--Television broadcasts can be viewed from band 3 chan-
nel 6 in Kastamonu and its vicinity as of this evening. According to informa-
tion »btained by the TRT technical officials, viewers in Kastamonu and its
vicinity should direct their antennas toward Ilgaz mountain. [Text] [Ankara
Domestic Service in Turkish 0530 GMT 4 Nov 77 TA]

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INTER-AFRICAN AFFAIRS

OAU TO ESTABLISH PAN AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY

Amin Speech, Other Proceedings
Peking NCNA in English 1613 GMT 12 Nov 77 OW

[Text] Kampala, November 11, 1977 (HSINHUA)--The first conference of infor-
mation ministers of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ended here today.
It decided to establish a Pan-African news agency.

Attending the five-day conference were Assistant Secretary General of OAU
Peter Onu, information ministers and delegations from more than 30 OAU
member states.

Addressing the opening ceremony, Ugandan President Idi Amin condemned the
impe~ialist and Zionist news media for always finding faults with indepen-
dent African countries and causing confusion and conflicts among them so
as to get their own interests. He stressed that "the only way to shed off
these remaining shackles of colonialism is to establish our own news
agency."

President Amin reaffirmed Uganda's stand to support the liberation move-
ments against the racist regimes in southern Africa and the struggle of
the Arab and Palestinian peoples against Israeli Zionism.

After earnest discussion, the conference adopted a "Kampala Declaration",
which says, "Information is a necessary instrument for education, mobili-
zation and orientation of the African masses." It points out. "It is
necessary and indispensable to draw up an African information policy based
on cooperation and concertation for strengthening African personality and
promoting rapprochement, unity, economic, social and cultural progress of
our peoples.

The conference elected an inter-governmental council responsible for study-
ing all questions relevant to the proposed Pan-African news agency. It was

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USSR

BRIEFS

TV STATIONS IN EAST--Blagoveshchensk--Four television relay stations--two
of which are high-powered--have been commissioned in Amurskaya Oblast in
the days preceding the festival, The inhabitants of the coalminers' city
of Raychikhinsk, the village of Chernyayevo, the lumberjacks' settlement
of Taldan and thousands of people from other populated centers in Amur-
skaya Oblast will for the first time be able to watch the parade and
festive demonstration on the capital's Red Square live, About 90 percent
of the population of the vast oblast, including the construction workers
on the central section of the Baykal-Amur Railroad, can now watch central
television programs. The zone where television broadcasts can be received
will continue to expand in the next few years as the steel tracks advance
north and east of Tynda, It is planned to commission small-capacity tele-
vision relay stations in the new settlements, [Text] [Moscow IZVESTIYA
in Russian 7 Nov 77 Morning Edition p 6 LD]

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disregard of the priorities of the sector and of the regions that generate
. those funds.

Ericsson Company Optimistic
Sao Paulo 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 23 Oct 77 p 39

[Text] Among the large industries in the sector, Ericsson of Brazil is the
only one that is expressing relative optimism about the future of telecomnu-
nications. The company has just doubled its capital, raising it from 589
million cruzeiros to 1,176,000,000 “through capitalization of the credits

of its Swedish associate, Lm Ericsson,” with a vier to rectifying the economic-
financial situation’ revealed in its last balancesheet. The origin of
Ericsson's optimism is perhaps the recent signing of a contract with Telesp

in the amount of about 1 billion cruzeiros do supply 86,150 terminals for

the city of Sao Paulo. Ina critical year such as 1977, that order can
justify euphoria.

Being an industrial group concentrated exclusively in telecommunications,
Gricsson depends on government decisions to a larger degree than other com-
panies in the sector. In any case, the increase of capital with preferential
right guaranteed to Brazilian stockholders is viewed by Ericsson as proof

of confidence in the market and an effective means of saving foreign exchange
since the credits of the Swedish home office (for imports already made) will
not require commercial payment.

Ericsson of Brazil also denies that it has any intention or that there is

any risk of "closing the capital” in Brazil. The period for stockholders

to avail themselves of the preferential rights to participate in the increased
capital runs from 31 October to 30 November,

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INDIA

GOVERNMENT OUTLINES PROPOSALS FOR NEWS AGENCIES

Delhi Domestic Service in English 0830 GMT 14 Nov 77 BK

[Text] Announcing the government's decision favoring restoration of status
quo ante of the four news agencies in the Rajya Sasha today, the minister -
of information and broadcasting, Mr L.K. Advani, assured the members that ©
the government will help protect*the present emoluments of SAMACHAR employees.
He also announced that grants in aid will be given to the agencies on a
(?totalling) basis for a period of 6 years. These will cover the difference
between emoluments drawn by them in SAMACHAR and the emoluments they would
have drawn from time to time had they continued in their original agencies.
Mr Advani said such a system will also meet the cost of additional posts
created by SAMACHAR.

The four agencies are: the Press Trust of India, United News of India,
HINDUSTAN SAMACHAR and SAMACHAR BHARATI. As some of the news agencies would
have undergone some dislocation following their merger, the government will
also corsider giving a nonrecurring grant to enable them to make a fresh
start.

Mr Advani said that the former government had not only actively assisted
the formation of SAMACHAR but had also guided its managing committee in
their policy decisions. SAMACHAR was in this sense a product and the sym-
bol of the emergency and the aberration arising out of it. The minister
said the government has therefore come to the conclusion that, at the
moment, government's role should be limited simply to the setting right

of this aberration. The news agencies forced to merge under pressure and
against their will should be allowed to function independently as they were
earlier. Mr Advani said it would then be open to the news agencies if they
so desire to cooperate or come together so that they could play more effec-
tively the pivotal role expected of them in the press set-up.

Congress members urged the chair to allocate time to discuss the government's
decision. Mr Vithal Gadgil said he has given a notice for discussing it.

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MALAYSIA

ERICSSON COMPANY HAS MAJOR ROLE IN MALAYSIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Kuala Lumpur BUSINESS TIMES in English 29 Sep 77 p 10

[Article by Ho Kin Chai]

[Text]

IN VIEW of the develop-
mental role of tele-
communications in mod-
ern society, the Malay-
sian Government has
planned to improve and
expand the services un-
der the Third Malaysia
Plan. Better services are
intended to support and
stimulate the develop-
ment of the major sec-
tors of the economy and
ensure its rapid growth
and equiable distribu-
tion among the various
regio 1s within the coun-

ry.
Telecommunications
— essential to the social
and economic de- elop-
ment of the country —
has become one of the
fundamental elements of
the developmental pro-
cess in modern society.
It increases the effecti-
veness of administration
and management of
production through
speedy transmission and
use of information.
Telecommunication
facilities, especially tele-
phone and telegraph ser-
vices, are expected
continue their expansion
to meet the wing re-
quirements of commerce
and industry in Malay-
sia. The Telecoms De-
partment, in accordance
with the’ policy of the
Third Plan, will be
expanding its facilities to
isting as well as to new
areas to promote new ec-
onomic growth. :
Modern business
transactions depend a
great deal on speed. The
availability of tele-
communications enables

the user to overcome

problems of distance. It
can substitute for travel
with the advantage of sa-
ving time, cost and la-
bour. Above ail, it facil-
itates closeness between

te.

Pecifficient communica-
tions in a country helps
as an important stimulus
to economic develop-
ment, particularly in the
marginal areas. Tele-
communications may
contribute direct and in-
direct benefits to the peo-
le. For instance, it con-
ributes directly to the

‘oss domestic product
hrough revenue from ta-
riffs and charges paid by
users.

The ‘value of these
benefits accrued to users
and the production of tel-
ecommunication equip-
ment and plant may be
viewed as the indirect
benefits. The manufac.
ture of these products
stimulate the national
economy, creates indus-
trial skill and provides
employment opportuni-
ties to more people. -

Telecommunications

romote international
rade and commerce. It
rovides incentive effort
for the establishment of
industrial complexes
and associated sub-in-
dustries in remote areas
into the national econo-
my. Besides expandin;
the telex service, the Tel-
ecoms Department will
introduce a new service
known as data-trans:
mission service to pro-
mote business efficien-

ow hen tele-
communications is used

8

for commercial purpose,
it acts as a catalyst in the
direct production of
goods and services and
can be compared with
other investments of an
infrastructural nature.

The use of the tele-
communications for resi-
dential purpose is simi-
lar to the use of consu-
mer Boods by the com-
munity.

Improved tele-
communications may
stimulate the industries
in rural areas which are
slow in economic growth
but rich in resources
such as timber, rubber,
palm oil, and agricultur-
al products. These indus-
trial activities may gain
new impetus with better
communication systems

According to the Min-
ister of Communica-
tions, Tan Sri V. Man-

ickavasagam, Malaysia _

will have more than
500,000 telephone lines by
the end of the Third
Plan. Last year, the Tel-
ecoms Department ins-
talled 38,000 telephones.
‘The target for this year
is about 50,000.
Malaysia has one of
the most efficient tele-
communication systems
in Asia, The Telecoms
Department adopted the
automatic subscriber
trunk dialling system in
the mid-1960s. e. old-
fashioned step-by-step
and manual telephone
exchange systems were
gradually phased out.

The choice of mod-
ernising the Malaysian
telecommunications sys-
tem. fell on the L M
Ericsson Crossbar Tele-
phone Systems under a
contract signed for pur-
chases 1967-72.
stipulat in the
agreement iwth the Ma-
laysian Government, L
Ericsson established
elecommunications
Manufacturers (M) Sdn.
Berhad (TMK) in 1971 to

| begin local production of

its equipment. The com-
pany now engages 400
employees, of whom 300
specialise in the manu-

facture of telephone
exchange equipment in
its factory in Shah Alam.
The extensive training of
production staff with lo-
cal training schemes as
well as special training
of Malaysian staff in the
Ericsson headquarters
in Sweden enables the
company here to produ-
ce very high quality
equipment.

‘To meet the ever gro-
wing expansion of the
Malaysian national tele-
phone system, the prod-
‘uction capacity at.
has been increased from
an initial 20,000 lines an-
nually to 50,000 lines per
year in the last two
years.