BURMA

COMMUNICATION VIA SATELLITE BY 1979
Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 31 Jul 78 p 1

[Text] Rangoon, 30 Jul--The satellite communications network being set up
under the project for the development of Burma's communications system will
be completed in about February 1979.

In order to carry out final implementation of the project, a Burmese dele-
gation headed by Managing Director of the Posts and Telecommunications
Corporation U Khin Maung Tun attended the International Satellite Communica-
tions Seminar held in Washington, during the second week of July.

Members of the delegation arrived back in Rangoon at 1400 hours today.

Under the project, Burma as a member of International Satellite Communica-
tions Organization will cooperate with other countries. U Khin Maung Tun
and party visited India, England, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore to observe
and discuss their systems as Burma will have to cooperate with these
countries which are members of the International Satellite Communications
Organization.

With the successful establishment of satellite communications, Burma will
be able to communicate with any country or any place at any time of the
day via telegraph, telephone or telex. NAB.

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URUGUAY

BRIEFS

SATELLITE STATION--The National Administration of Telecommunications [ANTEL]
today dedicated a satellite earth station in Hanga. The ceremony was
attended by Defense Minister Walter Ravenna and other high-ranking officials.
{Montevideo Radio Cadena de Oro del Interior in Spanish 1600 GMT

1 Jun 78 PY]

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YUGOSLAVIA

BRIEFS

NEW COASTAL RADIO STATION--A new coastal maritime radio station, Dubrovnik
Radio, was put into operation at Gorica on 25 July. It will operate as
part of a unified system of maritime radio communications in the area of
the central and southern Adriatic. It will carry out the international
service of radio navigation at sea and it will supply the necessary
information to domestic and foreign ships on the weather situation and
dangers at sea. [Belgrade BORBA in Serbo-Croatian 26 Jul 78 p 6 AU]

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At the moment FM is carrying the same medium wave English 1 kw. But,
according to Mr al-Majali, within 6 to 8 months the FM station will be
operating at around 20 kw's, carrying a separate programme. There will
also be a short wave service in English which will carry still another
separate programme. But this will not be ready by next year.

Mr al-Majali has just returned from a visit to London where he held talks
with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) world service. He said

that lately Radio Jordan and the BBC have had good but irregular, relations.
"The purpose of my trip was to put our relations on a more regular standing,"
he said.

Mr al-Majali said that the head of the BBC training centre has been invited
to Jordan to discuss Radio Jordan's needs and see how the BBC can help
fulfill them.

The talks with the BBC are still in the initial stages, Mr al-Majali stressed,
but "they have indicated that they are ready to help us."

Mr al-Majali regards London as a regular base for training Jordanian radio
personnel. It is expected that a number of Jordanian engineers will go to
Britain soon for training.

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MII-WAFA COOPERATION AGREEMENT--Budapest, 13 Jul (MTI)--Following an invi-
tation by the general director of the Hungarian news agency (MTL) Ziad Abdul
Fattah, general director of the Palestinian news agency WAFA included in
his European tour also Hungary. In Budapest he studied the Hungarian
system of news broadcast and carried on talks with heads of MII. After

the negotiations the two parties signed a cooperation agreement between the
Hungarian and the Palestinian news agencies. [Text] [Budapest MTI in English
1730 GMT 13 Jul 78 LD]

PORTUGUESE-GUINEAN NEWS COOPERATION--The Portuguese news agency and the
Guinean news agency have'signed a protocol in Bissau which calls for a
mutual cooperation agreement in the short term. [Text] [Lisbon Domestic
Service in Portuguese 0000 GMT 15 Jul 78 LD]

PAKISTAN COOPERATION WITH IRAQ--The Iraqi ambassador to Pakistan in a radio
and television speech on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the republic
said the Pakistan-Iraq Joint Ministerial’ Level Commission will meet in the
near future to hold talks on improving economic cooperation between the two
countries, He said that bilateral trade between the two countries has
increased and Pakistan is helping in various Iraqi development projects.
[Karachi Overseas Service in Bengali 0115 GMT 18 Jul 78 BK]

PALESTINIAN-CZECHOSLOVAK NEWS AGREEMENT--The Palestinian news agency, WAFA,
and the Czechoslovak news agency, CTK, reached an agreement in Prague the
day before yesterday on cooperation in exchanging news reports and wire-
photos. The agreement stipulates that WAFA and CTK will, to the best of
their abilities, provide assistance to each other's permanent representa-
tives in both Prague and Beirut. [Text] [Voice of Palestine (clandestine)
in Arabic to the Arab World 1800 GMT 14 Jul 78 JN]

MONGOLIAN RADIO, SOVIET HELP--A new radio transmitting station has been
completed in Ulaanbaatar. Soviet and Mongolian experts are now installing
the latest equipment, received from the Soviet Union, and in September the
radio station will become operational. Our correspondent, Sergey Pravdin,
reports from Ulaanbaatar: [Pravdin] The Ulaanbaatar radio station is one
of four now being built in Mongolia with Soviet help. All will be commis-
sioned this year. At the same time, construction is underway on a radio
relay line from Ulaanbaatar to (Vodealtay), which is one of the most
important projects of the current Mongolian Five-Year Plan. Its completion
together with the commissioning of the new radio stations, will help solve
the task of bringing radio to the more remote regions of the country. The
total length of the radio relay line will be about 1,200 kilometers. It
will be built in the present Five-Year Plan. The line will also enable

the MPR's radio and television network to reach several important industrial
centers, including the town of Erdenet where a joint Soviet-Mongolian
enterprise is being completed--a mining and enriching combine which will be
one of the biggest in Asia. [Excerpt] [Moscow Domestic Service in Russian
1330 GMT 31 Jul 78 LD]



Reorganization of the junction centers, that is to say the traffic exchanges,
both between subscriber exchanges in the same zone and. between the northern
and southern exchanges and between the island exchanges and the rest of the
world.

Reorganization of subscriber exchanges.
New guidance plan for the transmission cables.

Service to the island's various inhabited regions by means of an appropriate
line network.

The capacity of the overhead cables on poles will not make it possible to
handle this tripling of the number of subscribers. Thetefore, there will be
more cables in underground conduits. In addition, a good number of subscri-
bers are going to be located on the "Heights" of Reunion and it is unrealistic
to try to link them by cable to their automatic switchboard. Therefore, it
is necessary to devise modern solutions using an appropriate radio relay me-
thod, in the knowledge that certain frequency bands are reaching saturation.

This desire by the telecommunications administration to modernize the Reunion
network can be observed by the man in the street in the construction jobs in
progress or about to be started: work onthe Le Port switchboard, on expansion
of the present building in Saint Denis, on the building in Sainte Clotilde,
forthcoming extension of the present telephone center at Saint Pierre, con-
struction of the future building at Saint Benoit. The maximum capacity of
the buildings for exchanges will be increased from 33,000 items of switching
equipment as of the end of 1976 to 65,000 items of equipment by the end of
1978.

Moreover, the junction centers for this new structure and the automatic
switchboards have already been ordered or are included in approved budgets.
The equipment, much of which is going to be installed in the buildings now
being completed, is almost ald-being manufacturedinthe plants. Thus, by
the end of next year, the traffic flow capacity will have doubled.

What remains to be done pertains at the same time to the quantity, quality and
extent of the zones served:

To quantity, because a network structure will have to be prepared that will
then make it possible to implement the connection program.

To quality of subscriber lines, that is to say to the portion of line connec-
ting the subscriber to his automatic switchboard. This quality must be pur-
sued vigorously.

Finally, to extent, because the tripling of the number of subscribers must
correspond, in part, to an increase in telephone density on the "Heights"
whose scattered inhabitants and difficult access create a special technical
and financial problem for serving them.

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REUNION

DEPARTMENT'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM DESCRIBED
Paris REVUE FRANCAISE DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS in French Apr-Jun 78 pp 52-54
[Excerpt] What Is the Status of Telecommunications?

With regard to the connection of local networks making it possible to cornect
subscribers to their exchange, the telecommunications administration has set
up two zones corresponding to the two administrative subdivisions of the is-
land. Each one is both a "zone with independent routing control" and a“charge
area." Connection between the switchboards is accomplished, therefore, around
the Saint Denis junction center for the’ northern zone and the Saint Pierre
junction center for the southern zone. Any communication for or coming from
the island passes necessarily through the Saint Denis center.

Although this connection of local networks requires very traditional routing
rules, it also requires transmission carriers, groups of wire along which the
pnysical routing of electromagnetic currents and waves takes place. For this
purpose, the island's network includes two groups of interurban circuits be-
tween Saint Denis and Saint Pierre. One uses a group of high frequency (HF)
circuits by cable from Saint Denis to Saint Benoit, which extends a similar
microwave link between Saint Benoit and Saint Pierre. The other one in-
volves a cable group, equipped with digital systems and which extends a di-
gital microwave system between La Saline and Saint Pierre.

This diversity of carriers and routes is, as was seen in the article previously
devoted to Martinique (23 April 1977 issue), a necessary precaution against
the danger of cyclones, characteristic of those tropical countries. This en-
tails especially high costs, because the expenses for installing and expanding
equipment are in advance of the normal investment dates calculated orly on

an increase in traffic. Therefore, the unit cost of the circuits is higher.

Finally, the local circuits connecting the "sector centers" with their "in-
dependent routing center" are sometimes by HF cable, sometimes by cable with

coded pulse modulation devices (MIC), sometimes by analog or digital micro-
wave link.

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USSR

BRIEFS

USTYURT SETTLEMENTS' TV PROGRAMS--From TRUD-TASS news roundup: "In a
Few Lines"--Nukus--Television screens have lit up in settlements situated
along the railroad and gas pipelines crossing the Ustyurt desert plateau
between central Asia and the center. A retransmission line has been laid
down here 1 year ahead of schedule. [text] - [Moscow TRUD in Russian

6 Aug 78 LD] .

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We shall mention the tollowing, among other performances of service:

Assistance, within the framework of specific studies leading to guidance plans
and to spcifications. In particular, the company has a recognized specialty
in computer metrology. It has developed measurement procedures that make it
possible to evaluate the performance of a computer in addition to the consump-
tion of main and peripheral means required for each application.

Assistance to users, especially in outside services.

Maintenance of software. Thus, it has been possible to have a strict unifor-
mity of basic systems between the various computer centers.

Creation of utilitarian software. Telesystemes has set up, for Telecommunica-
tions, a whole series of software aiding in programing and processing.

Acquisition and improvement of data base software and conversational systems
(Socrate, Systeme-2000, Total, Tribu, Stratege), in the field of data bases. In
particular, one of the company engineers was selected as president of an inter-
national working group.

Telesystemes has also developed ready-made programs, like DEESSES for the in-
terpretation of statistics and several items of software for application to
telephone traffic.

Another specialty of Telesystemes from which Telecommunications benefited is
its experience in teleprocessing. The company has developed competence con-
cerning dialog between remote users and the computers, both with regard to
terminals and to minicomputers used as frontals or concentrators. This assis-
tance is extended to minicomputers operating independently and to microcompu-
ters.

A number of Telecommunications services are linked to Telesystemes computers
by terminals operated remotely. As of 1 April 1978, the following links were
counted: 43 1,200 bits per second specialized links, 3 2,400 bits per second
links, 92 4,800 bits per second, 6 9,600 bits per second, 7 19,200 bits per
second, 15 48,000 bits per second.

Telesystemes is also specialized in connecting between computers from different
manufacturers. Thus, the MITSIM and MITIMP products were developed to connect
CII-Mitra-15 minicomputers to Control Data computers. This product was sold
recently to the Academy for Space Sciences of the Soviet Union.

Check Processing Centers
The competence demonstrated in the management of data-processing centers at-

tracted the attention of a large banking group that commissioned Telesystemes
to install and manage a bank check processing center for it.

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KENYA

BRIEFS

NEW SATELLITE STATION--Power and Communications Minister Daniel Mutinda,
today launched a construction work of Kenya's second satellite earth station
next to the old one at Longonot in the Rift valley. The construction of a-~
new satellite earth station has been necessary because the old one is nearly
completing its life time of 10 years. The new station will take about

18 months to construct and will cost about 35 million shillings. It is
being built by an Italian company. [Nairobi Domestic Service in English
1600 GMT 26 Jul 78 LD]

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INDONESIA

SUHARTO INAUGURATES EAST TIMOR TV RELAY STATION 16 JULY
Jakarta Domestic Service in Indonesian 1200 GMT 16 Jul 78 BK

[Excerpt] At 1630 West Indonesia time or 1730 Central Indonesia time
[0930 GMT] today, President Suharto pushed a button to inaugurate the
Dili TVRI [Televisi Republik Indonesia] relay station. Immediately after
a television program from the central TVRI in Jakarta was clearly received
and watched by the people in the capital of the 27th province, East Timor.

The inauguration ceremony, which was held at the East Timor provincial
governor's building, was marked by the sngining of a document proclaiming
the inauguration by the president and the cutting of the ribbon and strings
of TVRI balloons by Mrs Tien Suharto.

Director General of Radio, Television and Film, Sumadi, reported that with
the inauguration of the Dili TVRI relay station, which is located on
(Marabia) hill, all 27 provinces in Indonesia can now receive television
broadcasts. . East Timor is now included in the Indonesian television
network,

He said that the opening of the Dili TVRI relay station was in line with the
government's development policy of equally distributing development achieve-
ments among all regions and people of Indonesia.

Sumadi said that it took only 3 months from when the surveys were conducted
at the end of [word indistinct] 1978 to determine the site and construction
of two television stations until their completion by Indonesian manpower
at a cost of 150 million rupiah.

According to Sumadi, as of the end of the Second Five-Year Development Plan
there are nine [as héard] television transmission stations in Indonesia--
Medan, Palembang, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Denpasar, Ujungpangdang
and Manado--supported by 85 relay stations and other communications networks
throughout the archipelago.

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INTER-ARAB AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

SAUDI-UAE TELEVISION AGREEMENT--Jidda--The Kingdom and United Arab Emirates
today ratified the agreement to set up the gulf television authority. It
was ratified by Foreign Undersecretary 'Abd ar-Rahman al-Mansuri, for
Saudi Arabia, and Shaykh Ahmad Muhammad Abu Rahimah, ambassador of the UAE,
for his country. The agreement, which was signed on 8 February 1977 and
includes the Kingdom, Iraq, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain names
Riyadh as the headquarters of the authority. The agreement aims at
coordinating cooperation between the television services of the region,
developing the television potentials of member states--and the exchange

of television news and programs and working for the realization of the
objectives of the Arab Broadcasting Union. At its Baghdad meeting in
March 1978, the Third Conference of the Ministers of Information of the
Gulf States decided that Dr Muhammad Abdul Yamani, Saudi information
minister, and Dr Khujah should serve as board chairman and director general
of the authority respectively during the current year. It also allocated
3 million riyals for its budget. [Text] [Riyadh SNA in Arabic 1930 GMT

4 Jul 78 LD]

APS-INA COOPERATION AGREEMENT--Algiers-~An agreement on cooperation and the
exchange of news was signed in Algiers yesterday between APS and INA. The
agreement was signed by the directors general of the two agencies.
Muhammad Munaf Yasin, director general of INA, had arrived in Algiers
yesterday at the start of a l-week visit. Today he will visit western
Algeria. [Text] [Algiers APS in Arabic 0600 GMT 3 Aug 78 LD]

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BRIEFS

NEW RADIO TRANSMITTERS--Two radio transmitters of 250 kilowatts output,
established to insure that Turkish Radio and Television Administration [TRT]
transmissions beamed abroad can be heard over a wider area, will go into
service in Friday, 7 July. The transmitters are located at Cakirlar Station
near Ankara and will enable TRT transmissions to be heard better in Balkan
and Middle East countries as well as in certain areas in Africa, Europe and
Asia. The antenna and frequency change facilities of these transmitters
are completely automatic and will enable TRI's transmissions beamed abroad
to be received better and with greater intelligibility, According to the
TRI technical authorities, these transmitters were ordered toward the end

of 1973 and have cost nearly 63 million liras. [Text] [Ankara International
Service in Turkish 1700 GMT 5 Jul 78 LD]

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CONTENTS (Continued)
ASIA
INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS

Philippines Leases Indonesian Communications Satellite
(Jakarta Domestic Service, 23 Jun 78) ........e.eeeeee

Briefs
Vietnam-Laos Radio Cooperation
Japan-Sri Lanka TV Service
ASEAN Satellite Communications Course

BANGLADESH
Briefs
Sylhet Radio Station
BURMA
Communication Via Satellite by 1979
(THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 31 Jul 78) ..... tee eeeeee
INDIA
India To Expand Satellite Communication Network
(Delhi Domestic Service, 26 May 78) ........00. be eeeee
India's Remote Areas To Be Linked by Satellite
(TIMES OF INDIA, 27 May 78) .........-.000e see eeeeee
Briefs
Domestic Satellite Communications
INDONESIA

Suharto Inaugurates East Timor TV Relay Station 16 July
(Jakarta Domestic Service, 16 Jul 78) ........

Briefs
Krawang Automatic Telephone Exchange
New Microwave Network
Automatic Telephones
Spacelab-1 Program

Page

www

10

11

12

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VIETNAM

BRIEFS

THANH HOA POST, TELEGRAPH DEVELOPMENT--The post and telegraph sector of
Thanh Hoa Province is striving to consolidate and expand the communications
network in the mountainous and coastal areas. The province now has 262 km
of teléphone lines and 6 telegraph stations specifically designed to serve
the mountainous and coastal areas. [Hanoi Domestic Service in Vietnamese
0400 GMT 14 Jul 78 BK]

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INDIA

INDIA TO EXPAND SATELLITE COMMUNICATION NETWORK
Delhi Domestic Service in English 0830 GMT 26 May 78 BK

[Text] Satellite circuits will link seven places, including five remote
ones, to the national telecommunication network next year.

This was stated by the communications minister, Mr Brijlal Verma, in
Srinagar today. The places are Delhi, Madras, Leh in Ladakh, Aizal in
Mizoram and places in the Andaman, Nicobar and Lakshwadeep islands.

Mr Verma told newsmen that in the beginning the centers will be linked
through the International Communication Satellite--INTELSAT.

India's second satellite is likely to be launched by the end of this year
as scheduled. The engineering model has already been successfully test
flown on a helicopter over the satellite tracking center at Sriharkota in
Andhra Pradesh, The deputy chairman of the Soviet Intercosmos, Prof N. S.
Novikov, who is leading a Soviet delegation of space scientists for dis-
cussion with the Indian counterpart, said the delegation is completely
satisfied with the work done by the Indian scientists in forging the
satellite engineering model,

The second satellite, Aryabhata II, is going to study the resources of the
earth, the land mass, and the oceans.

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SPACELAB-1 PROGRAM--Jakarta, 30 Jul (ANTARA)--The National Space and Aero-
nautic Institute (LAPAN) has recently been invited by the European Space
Agency to take advantage of photographic data on natural resources collected
by the Spacelab-1 satellite to be launched in 1980. Maksum Ipsjam, head of
Natural Resources Teledetection Project of the institute, told the press
here Saturday [29 July] LAPAN accepted the invitation. The Spacelab-1

will be in orbit for a week to photograph the earth's surface. Parts of
South Sumatra, West Java, Central Java, Kalimantan, Irian Jaya and East
Nusatenggara will be covered by cameras on board the Spacelab-1. Maksum
Irsjam said Indonesia will take advantage of the Spacelab-1 program to back
up its national development program in the exploration of natural resources.
[Jakarta ANTARA in English 0733 GMT 31 Jul 78 BK]

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INDIA

BRIEFS

DOMESTIC SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS--Trial use of satellites for domestic
communications has begun. The telephone users of Ahmedabad and Ajmer are
now talking through a satellite for a few hours every day. The calls to
these places are routed through the "Symphonie" satellite as part of the
Satellite Telecommunications Experiment Project [STEP]. STEP, a joint
project of the Indian Space Research Organization and the Post and Telegraph
Department, completes 1 year of operation today. The experiment uses a
Franco-German satellite, "Symphonie," which is being made available to
India for 2 years. The satellite is at present located at 19 degrees over
the equator. [Text] [Delhi Domestic Service in English 1230 GMT

31 May 78 BK]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

"ADN-'AGERPRES' COOPERATION AGREEMENT--ADN Director General Guenter Poetschke
visited Romania on 28-29 June. A cooperation agreement was signed on this
occasion between ADN and AGERPRES. At the end of his visit, the guest

was received by Comrade Dumitru Popescu, member of the Executive Political
Committee and secretary of the RCP Central Committee. The meeting was
attended by AGERPRES Director General Ion Cumpanasu. The sides discussed
the development of press cooperation between the two countries. [Text]
[Bucharest SCINTEIA in Romanian 30 Jun 78 p 4 AU]

"ADN'-'MTI' COOPERATION AGREEMENT--Berlin--A working agreement on cooperation
between the news agencies of the GDR and Hungary was signed in Budapest at
the weekend by the directors general of ADN and MII Guenter Poetschke and
Sandor Baros. The director general of ADN was received by Laszlo Fodor,
deputy head of the MSZMP Department for Agitation and Propaganda, and State
Secretary Dr Petr Varkonyi, head of the Press Office of the Hungarian
Council of Ministers for friendly talks. [Text] [East Berlin International
Service in German 1029 GMT 1 Jul 78 LD]

CZECH-GDR TELEVISION AGREEMENT--A long-term agreement was signed in Berlin
yesterday on mutual cooperation between the television of the GDR and the
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The agreement was signed by Heinz Adameck,
chairman of the State Committee for Television, and Jan Zelenka, central
director of Czechoslovak Television. [Text] [Prague Domestic Television
Service in Czech and Slovak 1800 GMT 2 Jul 78 LD]

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INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

VIETNAM-LAOS RADIO COOPERATION--Hanoi VNA, 25 Jun--A plan for cooperation
and mutual assistance in 1978 between Radio Voice of Vietnam and the Lao
National Radio was signed here this afternoon. Signatories were Le Quy,
vice chairman of the Vietnam Commission for Radio and Television and
editor in chief of Radio Voice of Vietnam, and Chaleuan Vongsaymang,
director of the Lao national radio. Present were Tran Lam, alternate
Central Committee member of the Communist Party of Vietnam and chairman
of the Commission for Radio and Television, and representatives of the
Vietnamese Foreign Ministry and Commission for Cultural Relations with
foreign countries. Also present was Lao Ambassador Khamta Douangthongla.
[Text] [Hanoi VNA in English 1557 GMT 25 Jun 78 ow]

JAPAN-SRI LANKA TV SERVICE--The Japan-Sri Lanka television service would
operate from November in a way to reach the general public at a lower cost.
The headquarters would be in Colombo. The relay station would be in
Pidurutalagala and the two substations, one in Jaffna and the other in
Trincomalee. Television broadcasting equipment has already arrived.
According to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting they have
received a large number of applications for television sets. The State
Engineering Corporation and the Department of Irrigation, Power and High-
ways are already engaged in cutting a 10-mile roadway to the relaying
station in Pidurutalagala. [Text] [Columbo WEEKEND in English 28 May 78
p 1 BK]

ASEAN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS COURSE--Bandung, 30 Jul (ANTARA)--Some

29 telecommunications officials from the ASEAN member countries are now
attending a training course at the telecommunications training centre here
to improve their skill in the domestic satellite communication system,

Six telecommunications officials from Thailand, 9 from Malaysia, 2 from
Singapore, 2 from the Philippines and 10 from Indonesia are taking part
in the course organised by the Telecommunications Public Corporation.

The course is held as the first step for the realization of cooperation
in the telecommunications field among the ASEAN countries. The course is

held from May to 1 August. [Text] [Jakarta ANTARA in English 0659 GMT
31 Jul 78 BK]

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start, great competence in matters of installation and maintenance of compu-
ters and of terminals, in addition to the management of teleprocessing net-
works. .

Since the clientele was increasing, Telesystemes concluded an agreement with
the COMSHARE company giving it access to COMSHARE's network, equipped with
Xerox Sigma-9 computers, through its center in London.

Since these material means have become inadequate in view of the commercial
success of the network services, Telesystemes has just installed a 66/20 com-
puter manufactured by the French CII-HB [International Data Processing Company-
Honeywell Bull] company. The company had previously acquired exclusive license
for an especially well-performing DTSS time-shared software from Dartmouth
College, a famous American university in Hanover (New Hampshire). The new
tool will make possible a rapid increase in its activity in the field of time
sharing.

Control Data Cyber~73 machines, well-suited for "lot processing," have been
added to the time-shared computers.

While in time-shared operation the user talks constantly with the computer
and demands of it work requiring a low or medium power computation, lot pro-
cessing generally requires a must higher power of the machine. The jobs de-
manded are entered by large amounts, as the term "lot processing" indicates.
After a job on the machine that may take a long time, the results are put out
on a printer.

The clientele of the network services of Telesystemes is on the order of 150
units. Curiously, most of those clients are not small-sized or medium-sized
enterprises that have no computer, but, rather, administrations or enterprises
already equipped with computers. They call on the network services either for
special applications, or for avoiding congestion of their own computer center.

Presentation of network services to the clients takes on two different aspects:

On the one hand, “office service" in which the clients are received, leave
their jobs at a window and return later to pick up the results.

On the other hand, "teleprocessing." A terminal is installed in the client's
office, connected to the computer by the converted telephone network, by the
telex network or, possibly, the Caducee network. The forthcoming Transpac
network will certainly be used in the future.

With regard to applications, several cases occur. Many clients, including
Telecommunications, use the service to process their ownprograms. Others, a
very frequent case for time sharing, use ready-made programs, that is to say
existing programs that Telesystemes has created or acquired.

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WORLDWIDE AFFAIRS

SOVIET SCIENTIST IN INDIA COMMENTS ON SPACE COOPERATION
Moscow TASS in English 2110 GMT 26 May 78 LD

[Text] Delhi, 26 May, TASS--Aleksandr Nikolayev, a TASS correspondent,
reports:

The Soviet Union completed all the preparatory work for the launching of
India's second artificial satellite of the earth, Nikolay Novikov, vice
chairman of the Intercosmos, said in an interview with a TASS correspondent.
He is currently in India at the head of a delegation of Soviet scientists
and specialists who took part in the engineering tests of a model of the
new space laboratory at the space centre of India. A number of matters on
the final improvement of the station by Indian specialists before its
launching into orbit by a Soviet rocket were discussed during the consul-
tations, Nikolay Novikov said.

Soviet-Indian cooperation in space research has still a short history,
notwithstanding the fact it brought practical results, Nikolay Novikov
emphasized. Due to the joint preparation and the launching of India's
first artificial satellite "Aryashata," India got national scientific
cadres. At present they independently handle a variety of complex scienti-
fic and technical tasks connected with space research. The joint programme
to launch into orbit a special terrestrial observation satellite is intended
for the solution of new important tasks in the interests of developing the
country's economy and studying its mineral, water and timber resources.

Indian and Soviet scientists are confident in a successful accomplishment

of the new experiment which, in their view, will serve to further strengthen
cooperation between the two countries, Nikolay Novikov said in conclusion.

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THAILAND

"VOPT' SCORES USE OF SATELLITES IN COMMUNIST SUPPRESSION

Voice of the People of Thailand [clandestine] in Thai to Thailand 1000 GMT
22 Jun 78 BK

{Text] The reactionary Kriangsak government is making an all-out effort to
offset its defeats and cope with the repeated attacks of the Thai people's
liberation forces in various parts of the country. It has assigned the
National Research Committee to study communist suppression methods. The
committee recently came up with a new proposal: suppression through the use
of satellites. It will cost as much as 60 million baht to set up a ground
station to receive information via satellite. The committee notes that

U.S. satellite No 4 [dao thiam duang mai duang thi si] is capable of providing
data on‘small areas and therefore will be able to give information on the types
and locations of communist camps in the deep jungle. Forces will then be
immediately dispatched to eliminate them.

This bizarre project, after it was revealed by the National Research Commit-
tee, came under strong opposition and attacks by people in various circles.
A newspaper said the project to suppress communists through the use of
satellites has caused laughter everywhere. It has caused a discomforting
feeling, because who knows how the innocent people living in the deep jungle
will be able to survive communist suppression operations via satellite. The
newspaper fears that, if this method is really carried out, anybody living
in the deep jungle, including the hilltribes people, will become a victim.
No one sighted in the deep jungle will escape the suppression operations.
The newspaper remarked that, since there is barely anyone living in the
forests now, since nearly all of them have been denuded, where are they
going to find their targets? It also suggested that it would be better

to spend the 60 million baht to buy lunches for the poor municipal school-
children.

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Budgetary Model-Building for Administrations: Example of Use of Network
Services

Telesystemes offers its clients, on its computers, "budgetary model-building"
services and “models and financial tables."

Regardless of whether it is a question of overall statistical tables, budgets,
flow charts, profitability rates, amortizement rates, the computer makes it
possible to draw up tables, charts and to make calculations on the basis of
data supplied to it.

The advantages of this kindof computerization are many:
Elimination of manual tasks, making it possible to save time.
Decrease in sources of error.

Necessity for the users to formalize the data that they use, in addition to
their calculation procedures.

Finally, the capability of consecutive simulations with a variety of hypothe-
ses, performed in a very short period of time. Five minutes suffice to ob-
tain new results on the basis of modified hypotheses. The user no longer
loses his time on long, wearisome computations. This is especially valuable
at the time of drawing up a draft budget.

‘whe models and financial tables of Telesystemes are not definitely fixed.
The ucer himself decides.

10,042
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The Chassieu microwave station is going to become rapidly one of the important
junctions in the French interurban network. It is also intended for serving
as a support for a number of regional and local links.

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SWEDEN

BRIEF

SWEDISH RADIO REORGANIZATION--This afternoon the Riksdag approved by 163
votes to 153 the government's proposal for a reorganization of Radio Sweden.
The proposal means that Radio Sweden will be divided into four companies--
television, radio, local radio and educational radio--with a joint umbrella
company in charge of the administration. [Text] [Stockholm Domestic
Service in Swedish 1700 GMT 24 May 78 LD]

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JAPAN

BRIEFS

TV SATELLITE EXPERIMENTS--Tokyo, 20 Jul (KYODO)--Japan's first experimental,
broadcasting satellite "Yuri" (lily) launched last April will undergo full-
scale experiments in the future after winding up a wide variety of technical
tests. The control over the medium-scale experimental satellite was handed
over to the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry's radio research laboratory
from the national space development agency Thursday. The satellite, launched
by a U.S. rocket from Cape Canaveral on 8 April to help bring about an
operational broadcast satellite system, reached its final position at the
altitude of about 36,000 kilometers over the equator in western Borneo

on 26 August. The satellite is designed to solve poor television reception
problems in remote and urban areas in Japan and develop a larger domestic
satellite system. The future experiments include TV reception to be beamed
directly by way of the satellite into homes across the country. [Text]
[Tokyo KYODO in English 0405 GMT 20 Jul 78 ow]

SPACE COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM--Tokyo, 27 Jun-~The Posts and Telecommunications
Ministry on 27 June launched a space development program which includes plans
for the launching of Japan's first commercial broadcasting satellite. The
program was submitted to the Space Development Commission presided over by
Director-General Tasaburo Kumagai of the Science and Technology Agency, the
nation's top decision-making agericy concerning space development. Under the
project, the ministry hopes to launch a communications satellite in fiscal
1982, a broadcasting satellite for practical use in fiscal 1983, and an
ionosphere observation satellite around fiscal 1985. Also planned is the
launching of an experimental satellite for testing the technology involved

in satellite-to-satellite or satellite-to-ground communications. [Text]
[Tokyo KYODO in English 1247 GMT 27 Jun 78 ow]

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CONTENTS (Continued) Page

ARGENTINA
Briefs
Radio Return to Private Owners 30
Additional Telex Services 30
PERU
Briefs
Communications Plans 31
URUGUAY
Briefs
Satellite Station 32

NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

INTER-ARAB AFFAIRS

Briefs
Saudi-UAE Television Agreement 33
APS-INA Cooperation Agreement 33
ALGERTA
Briefs
Telex Network 34
TRAN
Briefs
Advanced Technology Enterprise 35
JORDAN
Radio Jordan Announces Expansion of Facilities
(Alan Martiny; JORDAN TIMES, 14 Jul 78) ....... 36
PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF YEMEN
Briefs
"Aden News Agency, 'TASS' 38
Algeria Finances EOS, Libyan Visit 38



CONTENTS (Continued) Page

JAPAN
JCP's Senaga Scores Okinawa-Taiwan Submarine Cable Project
(OKINAWA TIMES, 29 Jun 78) ........eeeeeeee eee eeeeeeee 19
Briefs
TV Satellite Experiments 21
Space Communications Program 21
Navigation Control Satellite 22
SRI LANKA
Briefs
New National News Agency 23
THAILAND

'VOPT' Scores Use of Satellites in Communist Supression

(Voice of the People of Thailand, 22 Jun 78) .... 24
VIETNAM
Telecommunications Poor Between Hanoi, Rest of World
(Jean Thoraval; AFP, 29 Jun 78) .....cceecececeeees see 25
Briefs
Thanh Hoa Post, Telegraph Development 26
EASTERN EUROPE
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Briefs
"ADN-'AGERPRES' Cooperation Agreement 27
"ADN'-'MTI' Cooperation Agreement . 27
Czech-GDR Television Agreement 27
YUGOSLAVIA
Briefs
New Coastal Radio Station 28
LATIN AMERICA
INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
Briefs
Brazil-Paraguay TV 29



BANGLADESH

BRIEFS

SYLHET RADIO STATION--The minister for information and broadcasting,

Mr Habibullah Khan, has said a 20-kilowatt transmitter on the Sylhet radio
station will start operating by next October. Addressing the local
journalists in Sylhet today he said the programs of both radio and tele-
vision will be improved and reoriented to meet the hopes and aspirations
of the people. The minister said talented artists will be picked up from
the rural areas to make the programs of these two vital mass media more
attractive and informative. [Text] [Dacca Domestic Service in English
1530 GMT 18 Jul 78 BK]

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CONTENTS (Continued)

USSR
Briefs
Ustyurt Settlements’ TV Programs
WESTERN EUROPE
FRANCE
'Telesystemes' Company's Activities Described
(Jacques Treves; REVUE FRANCAISE DES TELECOMMUNI-
CATIONS, Jul-Sep 78) .......- se ceeeeeee
Chassieu Telephone Transmission Tower Described
(REVUE FRANCAISE DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Jul-Sep 78)..
SWEDEN
Briefs
Swedish Radio Reorganization
TURKEY

Briefs
New Radio Transmitters

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At present, about 78 million Indonesians can watch television broadcasts,
54 million in the rural areas and 24 million in the major cities.

Concluding his report, Sumadi said that the Denpasar TVRI transmission
station will be inaugurated tonight, while the Manado TVRI transmission
station will be inaugurated next September.

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JPRS 71709

18 August 1978

TRANSLATIONS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY,
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
No, 51

DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A
Approved for Public Release
Distribution Untimited

20000405 194

U. S. JOINT PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE

Reproduced From
Best Available Copy



SYRIA

BRIEFS

NEW RADIO STATION--Information Minister Ahmad Iskandar Ahmad this evening
inaugurated a new radio station in Dayr az-Zawr [northern Syria]. The
minister made a speech on the occasion in which he explained the reasons
for installing this station which will carry the voice of pan-Arab Syria to
the Arab homeland and reflect the pan-Arab stands of our party. This radio
station will carry the principles of our policy across the artificial
borders separating the regions of our Arab nation. [Excerpt] [Damascus
Domestic Service in Arabic 2115 GMT 29 Jul 78 JN]

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WORLDWIDE AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

AUSTRIAN-POLISH RADIO-TV PACT--Vienna, 4 Jun, PAP-—~A delegation of the
Polish Committee of Radio and TV led by its chairman, Maciej Szczepanski,
has paid an official visit to Vienna at the invitation of director general
of the Austrian radio and TV. Both directors signed an agreement on
cooperation between Polish and Austrian radio and TV which provides for
the exchange of programmes on social, economic, technical, cultural and

sports questions of both countries. [Text] [Warsaw PAP in English
0512 GMT 5 Jun 78 LD]

SUDANESE-UK COOPERATION~-Mr Nasr al-Din Mustafa, minister of planning,
received in his office this morning the British parliamentary delegation
currently visiting the country. Economic and technical cooperation between
the United Kingdom and the Sudan, particularly the aid being provided

by the United Kingdom to the Sudan via the British Ministry of Overseas
Development, were reviewed during the meeting. [Text] [Omdurman Domestic
Service in Arabic 1500 GMT 8 Jun 78 LD/EA]

PAKISTAN OVERSEAS TELEPHONE CIRCUITS-~Two additional overseas trunk circuits
through satellite have been opened linking Karachi with Colombo and Lahore

with Abu Dhabi. [Text] [Karachi Domestic Service in English 1700 GMT
12 Jun 78 BK] .

IRAN-DPRK NEWS AGREEMENT~-Pyongyang, 10 Jun--An agreement on cooperation
between the Korean Central News Agency and the PARS news agency of Iran

was signed in Pyongyang on 9 June. The agreement was signed by Kim Yang-son
Youri N. Laouri, deputy managing director of the PARS news agency of Iran.
[Text] [Pyongyang KCNA in English 0337 GMT 10 Jun 78 SK] Pyongyang, 10 Jun--



WORLDWIDE AFFAIRS

INDIAN MINISTER SPEAKS ON TROPOSCATTER LINK WITH USSR
Bombay TIMES OF INDIA in English 27 May 78 p 9 BK
[Article by our staff correspondent]

[Excerpt] Srinagar, 26 May--The union minister for communications,

Mr Brij Lal. Varma, said here today that a troposcatter communications
system receiving stations at Charar-i-Sharif in Kashmir and Dushanbe in
the USSR would provide India a direct radio link with all countries of the
communist bloc and in turn enable Russia to have straight radio access

to Southeast Asia by October 1980.

Mr Varma told a press conference that work on setting up antenna at Charar-i-
Sharif and Dushanbe, which were 680 km apart, had already begun.

The troposcatter communication system, which will not rely on satellites,
will be of "crucial importance to both India and the USSR." It would enable
Russia to gain communication advantages which it lacked at present by not
being a member of the international telecommunications satellite organiza-
tion.

The Charar-i-Sharif station would cost India Rs 40 million. The equipment
would be indigenously produced. Even the antennae to be set up at Dushanbe
were being supplied by India.

With the completion of this communication system direct radio and telephone

links would be provided between India and Russia and between India and
the East European countries.

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'TELESYSTEMES' COMPANY'S ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED

Paris REVUE FRANCAISE DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS in French Jul-Sep 78 ‘pp 33-39
[Article by Jacques Treves: " ‘Telesystemes'"]

[Text] "Telesystemes" was established in 1969, when France Cables and Radio,
a subsidiary of the French Telecommunications Administration, decided to di-
versify the activities of its group by entering the data-processing field full
of future. It is now one of the largest French data-processing service com-

panies and its sphere of action is quite varied.

Its turnover was 80 million francs in 1975, 103 in 1976 and 133.5 in 1977.
As of 1 April 1978, its personnel strength was 530 persons.

The activities of Telesystemes are located primarily in five areas that we are
going to examine in turn:

Network services.

Management of computers for Telecommunications.

Processing of bank checks.

Digital multiplexing.

Teleprocessing systems.

Network Services

Network services were the reason for the establishment of Telesystemes, at first
in the form of time-sharing. These services consist of making one or several
computers available to clients, by means of terminals placed in their premises
and connected remotely to the computer center. Each one "talks" with the com-
puter as if he had sole use of it.

The company bought one, and then two, XDS-940 computers, specializing in this

kind of services and manufactured by Xerox Data System. Since this company
had no maintenance capability in France, Telesystemes had to acquire, at the

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TRAN

BRIEFS

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE--An agreement to set up Iran's Advanced
Technology Enterprise was signed this morning between the National Iranian
Oil Company, NICO, the Omran Bank, the Imperial Armed Forces College of
Science and Technology and the Organization for Industrial Development and
Renovation of Iran, on the one harid, and the FRG's Messerschmitt~Boelkow-
Blohm Enterprises. The Iran Advanced Technology Enterprise has been formed
to transfer various forms of foreign advanced technology to Iran. One of
its important tasks will be planning for higher standard of research, train-
ing an extensive range of Iranian specialists and researchers at the high-
est international standards, and providng technical and consultant services.
[Tehran Domestic Service in Persian 0900 GMT 14 Jun 78 LD]

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SRI LANKA

BRIEFS

NEW NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY--"Pool" item--Colombo, 4 Aug (TANJUG)--Sri Lanka's
first national news agency Lanka Puwath has been formed here by a decision
of the associated newspaper publishers and with government participation.
As reported, the new agency will have as its chairman Edmound
Wickremasinghe, a prominent journalist and publicist, member of the inner

leadership of the ruling United National Party. [Text] [Belgrade TANJUG
in English 0910 GMT 4 Aug 78 LD]

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TUNISIA

BRIEFS

'TAP' ENGLISH SERVICE--Mustapha Masm Udi, secretary of state for information,
this morning inaugurated at TAP headquarters the English information section
of the agency and a daily national news bulletin in English beamed to
English-speaking countries. The ceremony was attended by Mahmud at-Turayki,
chairman and managing director of TAP. Thus the agency enters a new phase
of its diversified information activity. The Voice of Tunisia can now be
conveyed to the countries of Africa, Europe and the Middle East without any
third party. The transmission of this new service will last 1 hour a day
for a period of 3 months, after which it will be increased to 2 hours.

[Tunis Domestic Service in Arabic 1300 GMT 27 Jul 78 LD]

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NAVIGATION CONTROL SATELLITE--The Ministry of Transport (MOT) plans to start
fabrication of airborne equipment in FY '80 for use with the AMES (air and
marine engineering satellite) scheduled to be launched in mid~1984. The
AMES program is a national project being carried out jointly by MOT, Ministry
of Posts and Telecommunications, and the Science & Technology Agency. It is
intended to develop a satellite system for traffic control of aircraft and
ships. The system is expected to set up efficient, high precision and on-
line radio communication between ground stations and aircraft flying over the
sea via the satellite, enabling traffic control of aircraft as effective for
aircraft flying over land. For flight tests of the airborne equipment, MOT
will use flight-check planes as well as commercial aircraft. The equipment
will undergo ground tests from mid-1981 for about a year. From mid-1982, it
will undergo flight tests scheduled for completion by the spring of 1984.
Ground facilities for the satellite system will be built between FY "81 and
"83. [Text] [Tokyo JPE AVIATION REPORT-WEEKLY in English 2 Aug 78 pp 1-2)

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Partial Saturation

The synthetic nature of the unit of resources does not make it possible to de~
termine the causes of partial saturation at the time of evolution of the load
on a system with sufficient capacity. CYBER computers have been equipped by
Telesystemes with a CAMERA software measuring device used by heads of centers
for balancing configurations and for determining desirable evolutions.

Comete

Comete, which is intended for large-sized and medium-sized telex users, is
a product developed by Telesystemes. It is an automatic message switching
system using a SOLAR 16/40 minicomputer manufactured by SEMS [expansion un-
known].

It makes it possible to avoid delays inthe flow of messages between telex equip-
ment and the departments of a company by distributing within the company data
acquisition-receiving sets using screen-keyboards with or without a printer.

Comete solves all problems connected with the transmission of messages on pu-
blic (telex) or private (specialized telegraph lines) networks. It differs,
however, from the traditional message switching systems by features that make
it a more flexible and more powerful product.

Advantages .

With regard to outgoing messages, Comete provides either composition of texts
with every facility for editing and modifying, or use of prerecorded models,
which, moreover, can be modified for each dispatch.

Owing to its resources, the compueter brings about a saving in telex lines,
because it sends a message as soon as a line is free. The number of operating
sets is independent of the number of telex lines.

The machine is capable of sending any message to as many addresses as demanded
of it by means of a distribution list. It is no longer necessary to acquire
the message each time, as it is in the traditional telex system. The distri-
bution list itself can be modified for each dispatch.

Search for and redistribution of messages sent or received are made possible
owing to their storage on a magnetic disk. Storage also makes it possible to
pull out detailed traffic statistics. This makes it possible to apportion ex-
penses between departments.

The computer makes it possible to differ sending messages, that is, to send
them during off-hours or to take time-zone differences into account.

The basic system provides very broad capabilities and can be adapted to each
user's operating restrictions.

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CONTENTS (Continued)
SYRIA

Briefs
New Radio Station

TUNISIA

Briefs
'TAP' English Service

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Briefs
Telecommunications Station Inaugurated

BENIN

Briefs
Benin Broadcasting Service

KENYA

Briefs
New Satellite Station

NAMIBIA

Briefs
New Broadcasting Control Board

REUNION

Department's Telecommunications System Described
(REVUE FRANCAISE DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Apr-Jun 78)..

SOUTH AFRICA

Briefs
Military Communications System

TANZANIA
Briefs

Earth Satellite Project
Satellite Contract

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INDIA

INDIA'S REMOTE AREAS TO BE LINKED BY SATELLITE
Bombay TIMES OF INDIA in English 27 May 78 p 10 BK

[Text] Srinagar, 26 May~-Five remote places of the country, including in
Jammu and Kashmir, will be linked to the national telecommunication network
through satellite circuits next year.

This was announced by the communications minister, Mr Brij Lal Varma, who
is here in connection with a 2-day meeting of the consultative committee
of members of Parliament attached to his ministry, at a press conference
today.

Mr Varma said seven centres would be linked by satellite. They were the
cities of Delhi and Madras, Leh in Ladakh, Aizawl in Mizoram and places in
the Andaman, Nicobar and Lakshwadeep islands.

To begin with, the centres would be linked through the INTELSTAT inter-
national communications satellite, Later, India's own satellite, INSAT,
expected to be launched in 1980, would provide the link.

Mr Varma said his ministry had plans to expand the network so that by
1980-1981 there would be 35 satellite-linked earth stations, including
four mobile ones which could be transported by land or air to any spot in
emergencies,

The Ministries of Communications and Information and Broadcasting and the
meteorological departments would share the cost of the INSAT, estimated
at Rs. 1.7 billion.

The 35 earth stations would cost his ministry about Rs. 350 million, he
said. (UNI) [United News of India]

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TANZANIA

BRIEFS

EARTH SATELLITE PROJECT--Tanzania is to have its own earth satellite next
year at a cost of 23 million shillings. Contracts for the provision of the
satellite were signed yesterday by the director general of the Tanzania
Posts and Telecommunication, Ndugu (Maida), for the corporation [as heard]
and a representative of Japan's Nippon Electric Company. The project will
end Tanzania's dependence on Kenya for external telecommunication services.
[Excerpt] [Dar es Salaam in English to Central and Southern Africa

0400 GMT 13 Jul 78 LD/EA]

SATELLITE CONTRACT--Dar es Salaam--13 Jul (AFP)--The Tanzania Posts and
Telecommunications Corporation has signed a contract with the Nippon

Electric Company, of Japan, to deliver and install an earth satellite worth
$2.9 miilion. J. Maeda, director general of the corporation, said that the
satellite station would be in service in the second quarter of next year.

He added that the corporation would sign another contract for the manufacture,
delivery and installation of $1,150,000 international telex exchange

expected to be operational by the end of next year. [Paris AFP in English
0443 GMT 14 Jul 78 PA]

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Teleprocessing Systems

The experience acquired by Telesystemes in teleprocessing, owing to the de-
velopments of its own time-sharing network and to the links made for Tele-
communications, has enabled it to propose its services to organizations want-
ing to equip themselves with that kind of networks by supplying them with
systems all ready to go.

Those systems are produced either by the company alone, or in collaboration
with industrial companies, in three main areas: message switching, switching
by packages, large transactional networks.

Differently from circuit switching (telex network, for example), in which the
users have to be put in communication before beginning to transmit, message
switching enables the user to send his message (telegram or data) without
being concerned about the availability of the recipient or of the circuits.
The center handles storage and can connect users who are utilizing equipment
with a different speed and code. Telesystemes specializes in centers in which
processing of messages or texts is added to pure communication. Thus, it has
been entrusted with the message processing center of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and the international telex center in Abidjan. For less important users,
especially large-sized and medium-sized telex users, it has developed a pro-
duct called Comete.

Another product called Frantex enables a computer to be connected automati-
cally to the telex network and to send the results of data processing to pre-
recorded addressees.

Switching by packages, derived from message switching, has been the subject
of a number of articles concerning the Transpac network primarily. Tele-
systemes has made, in this field, a study, for the Commission of the Euro-
pean Communities, of the specifications for the terminal intended to be used
on the EURONET European network.

Previously, it had made some studies concerning the measurement center of the
Cyclades network, some computer connections by means of the RCP [Switching by
Packages Network] experimental network and a study on connecting terminals to
Transpac.

Telesystemes has just been retained, together with three Partners, to set up
the transactional network for a large public service. In its final phase,
it will include 10,000 terminals for which Telesystemes will produce most of
the software.

Telesystemes, a young, vigorous company, that makes its variety of competence

in most of the fields of data-processing available to its clientele, with Tele-
communications in the first place.

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ARGENTINA

BRIEFS

RADIO RETURN TO PRIVATE OWNERS--"Most" of Argentina's radio and TV stations
will be returned to private hands if the executive approves a draft law
submitted by the public information department, the department head said
yesterday. Public information secretary Rear Admiral Ruben Franco also
revealed that TV Channel 7 and Argentina TV Color would merge and set up
at the new Figueroa Alcorta and Tagle facility. He also announced colour
TV for Argentina by 1980 "if presidential approval is forthcoming." He
said that Channel 7 would completely evacuate their present facility in
the Alas building, Leandro Alem and Viamonte. Rear Admiral Franco said
that "a minimum" of radio and TV stations would remain in government hands
and would be used for the "traditional" government radio and TV service.
"The rest of the stations, I would say the great majority, will be de-
nationalized," Franco said. He also said that litigation pending over other
facilities, like Channel 13, would be continued out of court when possible.
[Text] [Buenos Aires HERALD in English 29 Jul 78 p 11 PY]

ADDITIONAL TELEX SERVICES--Buenos Aires, 17 Jul--The National Telecommunica-
tions Company[ENTEL] has announced that 45 telex stations will be completed
this year to cover the great demand for service, By the end of the 2-year
period ending in 1979, all 6,446 lines of the new system will be operating.
[Buenos Aires TELAM in Spanish 0330 GMT 18 Jul 78 PY]

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PERU

BRIEFS

COMMUNICATIONS PLANS--Peruvian Transportation and Communications Minister
Gen Elivio Vannini Chumpitazi announced here yesterday that by the end of
this year Peru will be among the top-ranking nations in telecommunications
in Latin America. He explained the development plan of his sector, saying
that the jungle departments are being given priority in order to achieve
better integration of the Amazon region. He said the rural telecommunica-
tions program is being backed by Hungary, Japan, Holland and Germany, among
other nations. [Lima Diplomatic Information Service in Spanish 0013 GMT
21 Jul 78 PA]

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This whole infrastructure was set up gradually, on the one hand within the
framework of reconstruction of the telephone network after hurricane Jenny,
and on the other hand with a view to automating the network. It is now com-
pleted. Reunion is the first overseas department to have achieved complete
automation, owing the effort made by the telecommunications administration,
of course, but also owing to active financial assistance by the General Con-
cil. That is to say, because of the department's reimbursable advances.

With regard to the connection of subscribers and telephone density (that is
to say, the number of telephones per 100 inhabitants), the last 8 years have
probably been marked by a decrease in the way in which Reunion lagged behind
the metropolis. With regard to automation, the gap during that same period
has been completely filled in.

Service With the Outside

Finally, concerning the intercontinental and international network, the infra-
structure includes the following:

The space telecommunication ground station at Riviere des Pluies, near Saint
Denis, placed in operation in 1974 and equipped with a 60-channel carrier wave,
making it possible to establish circuits with the metropolis. Because of this
good quality circuit capacity it was recently possible to automate telephone
service with the metropolis and toprepare, at present, for automation of the
telex network.

The microwave link between Mauritius and Saint Benoit, extended by cable
as far as Saint Denis.

The Bel Air transmission center and the Riviere des Pluies receiving center,
on the 10-meter band, handling connection between Saint Denis and Madagascar
on the one hand, and Mayotte on the other hand, after making service with
Paris possible before 1974.

Plans and Expectations

Of course, there is still much to be done, but the trends can already be spe-
cified.

First of all, the island's local networks have to be changed so that they can
handle reliably the increase in subscribers and in traffic, because the num-
ber of subscribers is to triple in a few years.

This operation, which must be performed without confusion by grafting the fu-
ture structure on the present one, will take several years. It will be ac-
complished progressively with growth and with obsolescence of the first-
generation equipment:

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JAPAN

JCP'S SENAGA SCORES OKINAWA-TAIWAN SUBMARINE CABLE PROJECT
Naha: OKINAWA TIMES in Japanese 29 Jun 78 Morning Edition p 1 OW

[Text] . Kamejiro Senaga, chairman of the Japan Communist Party [JCP] Okinawa
Prefectural Committee, has said that the Okinawa-Taiwan submarine cable
construction plan, which got underway last year, is tantamount, to laying "a
"semimilitary cable designed to give precedence to the U.S. forces, in
accordance with the U.S. Asian strategy." Senaga made the remark when he
met reporters in the prefectural assembly building on 28 June.

According to Senaga, the U.S. forces have been pressing Japan for early
completion of the cable project to secure a reliable military communications
network between Okinawa and Taiwan and they have asked for the allocation of
60 circuits, out of a total of 480, for their exclusive use when the project
is completed. The JCP charges that this may constitute a violation of the
wire communications law and plans to grill the government in the House of
Councilors Cabinet Affairs Committee when it meets on 29 June.

The 620-kilometer submarine cable project got underway in July last year
after the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry approved the establishment
of a company, the "Japan Asia Submarine Cable Company," to undertake the
project. The new company is funded in full by the Kokusai Denshin Denwa
{International Telegraph and Telephone] Company, Ltd (KDD).. The fact

that the undertaking company is a dummy company, not KDD itself, was regarded
as a measure giving due consideration to Japan-China relations since the
cable would be laid on the Chinese continental shelf.

Senaga told reporters: "The existing U.S. military submarine cable (60 cir-
cuits) was severed in the deep sea and rendered unserviceable last year.

I think that is why they are pressing us on this. project." He stressed:
"When this new cable is used by the U.S. forces, Okinawa's role as a
strategic communications base of the U.S. forces will further gain in
significance." He added that the use of a dummy company in the project may
constitute a violation of the wire communications law.

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SOUTH AFRICA

BRIEFS

MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM--The South African Defence Force headquarters
has announced the establishment of a military area radio system in certain
regions of South Africa. It is to be called the (MARS) system and will be
used for command and control by the commandos. It will also be used as
emergency communication to pass information to a control system which will
be manned 24 hours a day. The system will operate in the western and
northern Transvaal, Natl and the northwestern Cape Province, A similar
system is being planned for the Free State Province and the eastern Cape

at a later date. [Text] [Johannesburg International Service in English
1600 GMT 15 Jul 78 LD]

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Measurements of Computer Performance

The overall designing and production of performance measurement tools devel-
oped within Telesystemes made it possible to obtain results concerning the
load, capacity and saturation of all kinds of data-processing systems.

Load Followup

The determination and development by Telesystemes of a synthetic, stable unit
of computer resources (Kilo Unit of Resources) establisheda relation between
an application or a field of applications and and measurement of data-
processing energy consumed. Adoption of this unit by Telesystemes has made
it possible, for example, to note that a subscriber's billing represented

1.2 resource unit per month or that entry and moves in the telephone directory
corresponded to 0.22 resource unit per subscriber.

Expression of work done for applications by data-processing systems in terms
of unit of resources is used as follows:

For planning needs, by following up on flow and statistics (monthly report)
at the level of each computer center.

For followups on existing applications, estimates of loads due to new appli-
cations by persons responsible for applications.

For consolidating statistics, transfers of loads and comparison from center

to cevter, regardless of whether or not provided with similar equipment, at the
centrei level.

Capacity

Data-processing systems are calibrated, in order to determine a reference
power, function of the type of computer, of its configuration and of its

load profile. Thus, for a monthly operation of 320 hours, a CII-HB 7740

is evaluated at 2,500 KUR [Kilo Units of Resources], and IRIS-80 mono at

3,000 KUR, a CDC CYBER-73 at 3,750 KUR, a CII-HB 64/60 at 3,250 KUR.

The reference power is used as follows:

For estimated adaptation of existing configurations to new applications.

For estimated knowledge of the overall saturation of data-processing systems
in operation.

For specifications for new computers.
For estimating the capacity of a new item of equipment.

For drawing up data-processing plans.

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JPRS 71709

18 August 1978

TRANSLATIONS ON. TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY,
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

No. 51

CoNTENTS PAGE
WORLDWIDE AFFAIRS

WORLDWIDE AFFAIRS

Soviet Scientist in India Comments on Space Cooperation

(TASS, 26 May 78) ..ccececcccecccc ccc ceeneecceneenrees 1
Indian Minister Speaks on Troposcatter Link With USSR

(TIMES OF INDIA, 27 May 78) .....eeeeeeeeeceteeeeneees 2
Briefs

Austrian-Polish Radio-TV Pact
Sudanese-UK Cooperation

Pakistan Overseas Telephone Circuits
Iran-DPRK News Agreement

CSSR-Laos Radio Cooperation
Czech-Finnish Radio Protocol

Japan Supplies News to Brazil
Bangladesh Cables to USSR
Soviet-Australian Broadcast Agreement
MTI-WAFA Cooperation Agreement
Portuguese-Guinean News Cooperation
Pakistan Cooperation With Iraq
Palestinian-Czechoslovak News Agreement
Mongolian Radio, Soviet Help
USSR-India Radio Link

Nonalined Countries' Broadcasting Strategy
TAP-APA Agreement

NAN in Yugoslavia

NDDDUUUNUUE EERE WWWW

-a- [IIZ - INT - 140]



PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF YEMEN

BRIEFS

"ADEN NEWS AGENCY,' 'TASS'--Salih Hasan Muhammad, candidate member of the
Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee Culture and Infor-
mation Department, this morning received Comrade Sergey Losev, deputy
director general of the Soviet news agency, TASS. During the meeting, which
was attended by "Abd al-Wasi Qasim, director general of the Aden News Agency,
cooperation between the Aden News Agency and TASS was discussed. A supple-
mentary agreement on cooperation between the Aden News Agency and TASS was
signed yesterday. [Summary] [Aden Domestic Service in Arabic 1232 GMT

25 May 78 LD]

ALGERIA FINANCES EOS, LIBYAN VISIT--Mahmud 'Abdallah 'Ushaysh, minister of
comiunications, returned to Aden today from visits to Algeria and Libya.
The minister said he had held talks with Algerian officials resulting in
agreement by Algeria to finance the construction of an earth satellite
station in the PDRY. In Libya the minister delivered to Colonel al-Qadhafi
a message from 'Abd al-Fattah Isma' il, secretary general of the Unified
Political Organization--National Front Central Committee, Minister
'Ushaysh has disclosed that a Libyan delegation will visit the PDRY at the
beginning of June to discuss matters of bilateral interest. [Summary]
[Aden Domestic Service in Arabic 1230 GMT 24 May 78 LD/EA]

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JORDAN

RADIO JORDAN ANNOUNCES EXPANSION OF FACILITIES
Amman JORDAN TIMES in English 14 Jul 78 p 3 JN
[Article by Alan Martiny]

[Excerpts] Amman, Jul [as published]--Special to the JORDAN TIMES--Radio
Jordan is preparing for a major expansion in the next 12 months,

Mr Nasuh al-Majali, director general of the Hashemite Broadcasting Service,
told the JORDAN TIMES in a recent interview.

The station is installing a new powerful transmitter near Ajlun which will
be operational next May or June. The broadcasting station will then have
a combined transmission power of 2 megawatts, one of the largest in the
Middle East,

"The entire project is part of the Five-Year Plan invisioned for the radio,"
Mr al-Majali noted.

The government has made an agreement with the firm Continental for the
installation of the transmitting station at a cost of $4,5 million.

Mr al-Majali mentioned that as a result of the increased transmission
capacity Radio Jordan will be extending its services. The present Arabic
service will become Radio 1, as it has been temporarily named, With broad
coverage and a variety of programmes, Radio 1 will reach the the entire
Middle East, North Africa and parts of Europe.

Radio 2, however, will be a local station which will include special pro-
grammes for farmers and soldiers along with educational programmes, This
station will be geared toward local listeners.

The English service will also be extended, Mr al-Majali said. The service

will have two separate programmes. The present English section will continue
on the medium wave and the second programme will be broadcast on FM.

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FRANCE

CHASSIEU TELEPHONE TRANSMISSION TOWER DESCRIBED
Paris REVUE FRANCAISE DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS in French Jul-Sep 78 p 32

[Text] The new microwave tower just put in operation by the French Telecom-
munications Service, east of Lyons, has a capacity in excess of 400,000 simul-
taneous telephone communications. It is 90 meters high and over 7 meters in
diameter, white and red on a sky-blue background.

There already was a junction station located at Saint Cyr au Mont d'Or for
handling interurban telephone communications in the Lyons region, but it was
running the risk of no longer being sufficient. It was decided to build
another one.

The choice of a location for a microwave tower is always critical, for tech-
nical and also environmental reasons. The site of the future station must be
on a line of sight with the paired towers and with no risk of interference
with links ending at Saint Cyr au Mont d'or. Proximity of the Lyons-Satolas
Airport and of various urban development projects also had to be taken into
account.

A first site, in the Decines-Charpieu Commune, had to be abandoned, because
construction of that kind of tower would have jeopardized a project for a
"planned development zone." After a meeting between representatives of Tele-
communications, of the urban community and of the equipment department, it
was decided to install the tower on the territory of Chassieu, in a place
called "Les Bouttieres."

Construction work that started on 1 September 1975 was completed in January
1977.

On the upper part, four jutting platforms are for receiving the antennas. Four
ring-shaped rooms make it possible to arrange the transmitter-receivers as
close as possible to those antennas and to use high frequencies (10-15 giga-
hertz at present).

At the base of the tower, a building with a useful area of 420 square meters

comprises technical facilities, including an auxiliary power plant and the
living quarters of the head of the center.

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USSR-INDIA RADIO LINK--Delhi, 1 Aug, TASS--An official report was published
here: that the work to create direct multi-channel tropospheric radio line
between India and the USSR is conducted ahead of schedule and will be con-
cluded in 1980. The protocol on bilateral cooperation in this sphere
envisages the construction of a complex of devices that will ensure a stable
communication over the Himalayas. Large volume of equipment will be supplied
by major Indian state enterprises. Under the protocol on establishing direct
multi-channel tropospheric radioline, Indian specialists will undergo training
in the USSR. The Indian press writes that cooperation in this important
sphere attests to further development of friendly relations between the two
countries. [Text] [Moscow TASS in English 1646 GMT 1 Aug 78 LD]

NONALINED COUNTRIES' BROADCASTING STRATEGY--New Delhi, Aug 8 (TANJUG)--At
the next Conference of Broadcasting Organizations in Geneva in October,
the nonalined countries will urge a juster international distribution of
radio frequencies. Such is the conclusion reached by a group of radio and
telecommunications satellites experts at the close of their three-day
meeting. The group of experts was named by the Committee for Cooperation
of the Nonaligned Broadcasting Organizations. Representatives of Algeria,
Cuba, Nigeria, the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, Guyana,
Yugoslavia and India participated in the gathering, considering thirty

or. so technical documents mostly prepared in Yugoslavia and India on the
future of the world's telecommunications. The group also decided to work
out a concrete plan for exchanges of the nonaligned's TV and radio pro-

grams via Intelsat satellite system, [Text] [Belgrade TANJUG in English
1940 GMT 8 Aug 78 LD] : .

TAP-APA AGREEMENT--Vienna, 15 Jun--A cooperation agreement between the
Austrian APA agency and the Tunisian TAP agency was signed in Vienna yester-
day by Mr Andreas Berghold and Mr Mahmoud Triki, respectively director gen-
eral of APA and president director general of TAP. This cooperation agree—
ment, the first of its kind between the two agencies, allows for the ex-
change of news services of the two agencies, the exchange of experience and
of journalists as well as of documents on the two countries. More parti-
cularly, the agreement provides that APA will undertake to transmit daily
in German five news items which will be passed to it by TAP. This trans-
mission will affect all the mass media which are partners of APA both in-
side and outside Austria. In return TAP undertakes to transmit every day
five news items prepared by APA to all its partners inside and outside
Tunisia, particularly in the Arab and African world, [Tunis TAP in
French 1500 GMT 14 Jun 78 LD]


The General Council, just as it had done for automation, and the Regional Coun-
cil, established more recently, have decided to collaborate actively in carry-
ing out this very ambitious network development and renovation program.

In French telecommunications, the realist is the daring person, in the southern
hemisphere also.

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falampon

St-Phitippe

Vincendo

(1) Wd centre a autonome dachemnement (4am Systéme numérisé (MIC)
(2) @ Contre de secteur et. le cas échéant. sous-centre de secteur (5 = Faisceaux herttiens anatogiques

(3) uu Suppors HF par cable (G)uus Faisceaus hertziens numériques

Key: 1. Independent routing center; 2. Sector center and,
if necessary, sector subcenter; 3. HF supports by cable;
4. Digitized system (coded pulse modulation); 5. Analog
microwave link; 6. Digital microwave link.

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The most successful ready-made programs are for the following fields: finan-
cial estimates, analysis of investigations, interrogation of data bases, ap-
plications in mechanics (primarily calculations of structures).

Finally, the company is in a position to provide "delivered" applications.
In this case, the client states a requirement, which is studiedand assigned
to analysis-programing teams that set up the necessary programs. In every
case, assistance is guaranteed to the clients, in order to enable their asso-
ciates to make use of access to the computer.

Telesystemes is going to add an important service in the interest of the na-
tion to the traditional network services. The company has just been entrusted
by the Ministry of Industry and Research (National Bureau of Scientific and
Technical Data) with the creation of large scientific data bases. They will
be installed in an IRIS-80 biprocessor computer and will be accessible to
public and private research centers by means of public converted networks.

Management of Computers for Telecommunications

The competence acquired by Telesystemes in connection with network services
have led the Directorate General of Telecommunications (DGT) to commission the
company with installing and operating computers devoted almost entirely to
performing data-processing jobs for the Telecommunications services. The ap-
plications are processed under the responsibility of the DGT.

The following were the computers as of 1 April 1978: six Control Data/Cyber-
73 irstalled in Massy (2), Rungis, Nancy, Nantes and Marseilles; one CII/IRIS-
60 ut Arcueil and one CII/IRIS-80 at Orleans; two Siemens-4004A at Montrouge.

A number of applications are processed on the Contral Data machines. The main
ones are telephone billing, preparation of yearbooks, administrative management,
applications concerning service quality, various commercial and technical
Management applications, including some with data bases.

The Siemens computer at Montrouge is used for photocomposition of the tele-
phone directory; the IRIS-80, for handling requests for telephone service and
the IRIS-60, for managing supplies and contracts.

In addition to making machines and operating personnel available, the service
provided by Telesystemes to Telecommunications includes a number of other
performances.

The first one is the installation of computer centers itself. The company
has specialists in installation of computers, fitting out premises, power in-
stallation, air-conditioning. In addition, it has occasion to execute, in
this field, contracts emanating from other clients, especially from a univer-
sity.

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INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS

PHILIPPINES LEASES INDONESIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE
Jakarta Domestic Service in Indonesian 1200 GMT 23 Jun 78 BK

[Text] Today the Philippines formally signed a lease contract on the use of
the facilities of Palapa 2 domestic communications satellite for expanding
communications to all areas in that country. The document was signed by the
president-director of the telecommunications corporation, Wili Munandir
Mangundiprodjo, and (Bonaficio Jose Afrika), representing the Philippine
domestic satellite authority, DOMSATPHIL.

With the signing of the contract, the Philippines became the first ASEAN
country which will use the facilities of Palapa 2 which so far has been used
as a backup for Palapa 1. For this purpose the Philippines is building

11 earth stations located in Manila, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga,

Cebu, Bacolod, Pauayan, Tacloban, Tuguegurao, (Herika) and Laoag. These
stations will be operational early next year. While in the initial stage,
four stations will begin operation in September.

According to the contract, the Philippines will lease 1 1/2 transponders
for 5 years paying $693,000 per transponder per year. One transponder
will be used for television transmission while the one-half transponder

is for telecommunications within the Philippines and along the Philippines-
Indonesian border region connecting Davao and Zamboanga in the Philippines
with Manado in Indonesia,

Both Wili Munandir and (Jose Afrika) pointed out that the leasing contract
reflects the growing ASEAN spirit in efforts to mutually assist and promote
all aspects of life among ASEAN nations.

Thailand is also exploring the possibility of using the facilities of the
Palapa domestic communications satellite to expand and speed up its
communications,

The director general of post and. telecommunications, Suhardjono, and the

ASEAN national secretary general, Umarjadi Njotowijono, attended the signing
ceremony.

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INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS

BRIEFS

BRAZIL-PARAGUAY  TV--Miguel Fustagno, representative of the Brazilian
"Globo Network" has arrived here to present a plan to President Stroessner
to install a new television station in Paraguay, with Brazilian capital
and technology. The "Globo Network" is the largest communications industry

in Brazil and the ninth largest in the world. [Asuncion ULTIMA HORA in
Spanish 5 Jul 78 p 7 PY]

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INDONESIA

BRIEFS

KRAWANG AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE EXCHANGE-~The automatic telephone exchange at
Krawang Regency, West Java, will be operational from 1 June. With the
completion of the Krawang automatic ‘exchange, there are now four automatic
telephone exchanges in West Java--in East Bandung with 2,200 lines, in North
Bandung with 2,800 lines and in West Bandung with 1,000 lines. [Jakarta '
Domestic Service in Indonesia 0700 GMT 31 May 78 BK]

NEW MICROWAVE NETWORK--The Eastern microwave system linking Bali-Nura
Tenggara Barat-Nusatenggara Timur and Ujungpandang will shortly be opened
at a ceremony in Ujungpandang, Mustafri Effendi, of Perum Telekomunikasi
[PERUMTEL], said here Wednesday. This will enable isolated areas in eastern
Indonesia--so far not in the domestic satellite communication system--to
have microwave services. To the west, the eastern microwave system is
connected with the Java-Bali line. The eastern microwave system has two
routes: the major route linking Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Tanahjampea,
Selayar and Sulawesi and the minor route linking Flores, Sumba and Timor.
Effendi said the eastern microwave system has eight terminal and 11 repeater
stations. Construction of the system, he said, started in 1974. the project
became operational on 31 May this year although some minor plants will no
be completed until the end of July, Up to the end of May, construction work
has claimed RP. 5.2 billion. The funds are madé available by the central
government, PERUMTEL and a Japanese 2.4 billion yen loan. [Excerpt]
[Jakarta INDONESIA TIMES in English 9 Jun 78 p 2 BK]

AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES--The telecommunications corporation is making prepara-
tions for the installation of 20,000 lines for 10 automatic telephone
stations in central Java to replace the regular telephones. Automatic
telephone centers are being set up in Pati, Kendal, Kebumen, Klaten,
Salatiga, Kuous, Pekalongan, Tegal, Purworkerto and Cilacap. [Jakarta
Domestic Service in Indonesian 2300 GMT 3 Jul 78 BK]

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CHAD

BRIEFS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS STATION INAUGURATED--Ndjamena, 15 Jun (AFP)--A land sta-
tion for telecommunications by satellite was inaugurated on Thursday morning
in Ndjamena with Chadian vice president [as received] Col Mamari Djime and
the diplomatic corps accredited in Chadin attendance. The ceremony was
marked by a television broadcast and a telephone conversation between Maj
Zakaria Wawa Dahab, Chadian minister of mines and geology, and Norbert
Segard, French secretary of state for posts and telecommunications. The
Ndjamena land station is one of the economic projects which the Superior
Military Council and the Provisional Government included in the 1978-88
Development Plan. Financed by the aid and cooperation fund and the Central
Bank of Economic Cooperation, the station is an example of French-Chadian
cocperation developed through the Chadian Society of International Tele-
communications [Societe des Telecommunications Internationales du Tchad—~
TIT]. The station, which cost 750 million CFA francs, uses an Intelsat IV
~A-type satellite in an orbit over the Atlantic and Indian oceans. [Sen-
tence as received] Chad has been a member of the Intelsat international
organization since June 1977. [Text] [Paris AFP in French 1702 GMT 15 Jun
78 PAJ

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VIETNAM

TELECOMMUNICATIONS POOR BETWEEN HANOI, REST OF WORLD
Paris AFP in English 1047 GMT 29 Jun 78 OW
[Article by Jean Thoraval]

[Text] Hanoi, 29 Jun (AFP)--Whether as a result of Sino-Vietnamese tension
or because telecommunication links with Moscow are too unsophisticated,

it is now more difficult in Hanoi to make an international telephone call
than it was even at the height of the American bombing. And telex links
which took news from Vietnam to Paris in an hour now sometimes take 3 days.

In the past when telecommunication links between Hanoi and Moscow closed
down at 2200 hours it was possible to speak to the capitals of Western

Europe via Peking. Recently this has proved an impossible and frustrating
exercise.

After trying for 8 hours without success to get through to Western Europe
this correspondent decided to telephone colleagues in Peking. ‘The line
was good, but the call was passed from one wrong Peking number to another,
something that had not happened before in 5 years.

Perhaps the Vietnamese operator wanted to show that cooperation between
Vietnam and China was a dead letter, perhaps the switchboards were falling
apart through old age.

One thing seems clear, as the media and diplomatic war rages. A little

battle is taking place on the telecommunications front with the result
that Hanoi can be cut off for hours on end from the outside world.

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ALGERIA

BRIEFS

TELEX NETWORK-~APS, Algiers--Mohamed Zerguini, minister of posts and tele-
communications, on Tuesday morning inaugurated the national telex network
at the offices of the network main office in Algiers. The ceremony was
followed by a visit to the technical installations of the center. [Algiers
APS in French 0900 GMT 7 Jun 78 LD]

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The existing U.S. military submarine cable connects Chatan in Okinawa with
Keelung in Taiwan.

Meanwhile, commenting on Senaga's remarks, Chosei Shikina, director of the
KDD Okinawa International Communications Office, said: It is true that a
480-circuit submarine cable will be laid between Okinawa and Taiwan. But
it is totally incorrect that the U.S. forces have asked for the allocation
of 60 circuits. The U.S. forces have not asked for anything like that.

We have proposed to the local fishermen to hold negotiations and, if
possible, we would like to start the Minatogawa project this autumn. When
completed, the cable will be operated by our company (KDD).

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Vice President Kang Yang-uk on 9 June met and had a friendly talk with
Youri N. Laouri, deputy managing director of the PARS news agency of Iran.
Personage concerned Kim Yang-son was present. [Text] [Pyongyang KCNA

in English 0339 GMT 10 Jun 78 SK]

CSSR-LAOS RADIO COOPERATION--An agreement on cooperation between the CSSR
Radio and the Laos national radio was signed on Wednesday in Prague by
Central Director of the CSSR Radio Jan Risko and Chaleun Vongsam-ang,
director of the Laos national radio. [Text] [Prague RUDE PRAVO in Czech
15 Jun 78 p 2 AU]

CZECH-FINNISH RADIO PROTOCOL--Helsinki, 30 Jun, CETEKA--A working protocol
on cooperation between the Czechoslovak and the Finnish radio in the
1978-1980 period was signed here yesterday by Central Director of the
Czechoslovak Radio Jan Risko. Under the protocol, the two institutions
will exchange programs on the occasion of the two countries' national days.
Special attention will be paid to cooperation in the preparation of
programs devoted to relations between the two countries in the sphere of
economy, science, culture and sport. [Text] [Prague CTK in English

1719 GMT 30 Jun 78 LD]

JAPAN SUPPLIES NEWS TO BRAZIL--Tokyo, 28 Jun--KYODO news service announced
28 June the conclusion of a news supply agreement with the Sao Paulo SHINBUN,
a leading Japanese-language newspaper in Brazil. The agreement allows the
Sao Paulo SHINBUN to receive KYODO's facsimile tabloid newspaper, trans-
mitted directly from Tokyo by radio, and use the KYODO news for its own
Pages. The Sao Paulo SHINBUN is the first Japanese-language newspaper in
Latin America ever to subscribe to KYODO's Japanese news. The contract,
effective 1 July, was signed by Mitsuto Mizumoto, president of the Sao

Paulo SHINBUN, and his KYODO counterpart Takeji Watanabe. [Text]

[Tokyo KYODO in English 0816 GMT 28 Jun 78 OW]

BANGLADESH CABLES TO USSR--Bangladesh is to supply telecommunication cables
worth 2,7 million taka to the Soviet Union this year. An arrangement to
this effect was signed between the two countries in Dacca yesterday. [Text]
[Delhi General Overseas Service in English 1000 GMT 2 Jul 78 BK]

SOVIET-AUSTRALIAN BROADCAST AGREEMENT--Moscow, 13 Jul, TASS--An agreement
on cooperation in the sphere of television and broadcasting was signed

in Moscow today between the Soviet Committee for Television and Broadcasting
and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. It Provides for an exchange

of television films and radio materials about the life of the peoples of
the two countries, for mutual assistance in the filming of programmes on
the most important events in the life of the USSR and Australia. [Text]
[Moscow TASS in English 2051 GMT 13 Jul 78 LD]


This activity was entrusted to the European Company for Processing Banking Data
(SETIB), a subsidiary owned 100 percent by Telesystemes.

Since checks have to be submitted every day to the other banks in the clearing-
house, they are sent in the evening of the day before to the processing center
equipped with two Burroughs 3700 computers and three sorters by the same manu-
facturer. There, they proceed to verify and postmark them (printing the hand-
written indications in optical characters). They are then inserted in the
sorters, which classifies them by destination bank. The computer guides these
sorters and draws up a list of the checks as well as statistics. The center
verifies correctness of the lists and statements and proceeds to make any ad-
justments necessary.

Four other banks, to which the original client was added, have requested the
company to set up a second check processing center for them. Its data-
processing equipment is similar to the equipment of the first one, but its
organization of processing is more complex, owing to the number of clients.

Digital Multiplexing

In 1973, the Directorate General of Telecommunications commissioned Telesystemes
with initiating the Transplex Digital Multiplexing Service.

This multiplexing makes it possible to lease to the clientele relatively low-
speed (50 to 1,200 bauds) transmission channels, obtained on the basis of su-
perior quality "4-wire" telephone circuits. This method represents a saving
both fox the client and for the administration making the sharing of circuits
possible among a variable number of users.

As of 1 April 1978, there were 69 multiplexers, 40 network access junctions,
506 channels leased to the clientele (banks, insurance companies, airlines,
press and travel agencies).

There, too, this activity has made it possible to develop a technical compe-
tence. Several private companies, including a large insurance company and a
heating engineering company, have commissioned Telesystemes to install digital
multiplexing networks.

A more important fact: the PTT [Postal, Telephone and Telegraph Service] ad-
ministration of the Republic of Ivory Coast has entrusted it with the instal-
lation of a network called Sytran, similar to Transplex, in that country.
Several administration and companies in that African country have installed
computers in the capital, Abidjan, and want to use them on the basis of ter-
minals installed in the provinces. This was impossible to do with the tra-
ditional methods, but it can be done with digital multiplexing.

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BENIN

BRIEFS

BENIN BROADCASTING SERVICE-~In Benin an edict formally establishing the
Bendel Broadcasting Service has been promulgated by the state government.
The edict, which took effect from 1 April this year, provides for the
appointment of the board of directors for the radio station. The board,
which comprises nine members, is headed by a chairman, while each member
will hold office for 3 years. It will be responsible for the appointment,
promotion and discipline of its workers. The radio station, which was
formerly an arm of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, will be identified
as Radio Bendel, Benin City. The station was handed over to the Bendel
State Government recently, following the restructuring of radio broadcasting
in the country. And in Kano, an 1l-member Board of Governors has been
appointcd for the Kano State Broadcasting Service, The board is headed by

, the former chairman of the Broadcasting Company of Northern Nigeria [word
indistinct], (Alhaji Vandaji Dankaka). This was announced in Kano by
the state commissioner for home affairs and information, Alhaji Muhammadu
Maude, shortly after a meeting of the State Executive Council. [Text]
[Lagos International Service in English 2100 GMT 13 Jul 78 LD]

cso: 5500

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NAMIBIA

BRIEFS

NEW BROADCASTING CONTROL BOARD--Windhoek--The administrator-general of South-
West Africa/Namibia, Mr Justice M. T. Steyn, yesterday announced the forma-
tion of a multiracial provisional board to control broadcasting in South-West
Africa/Namibia in the period before independence. In a statement, Mr Steyn
said the board had been established in cooperation with the South African
Broadcasting Corporation to deal with the planning and establishment of an
independent radio service for South-West Africa/Namibia after independence.
The board would also deal with all matters concerning broadcasting in the
interim period before independence. Two members of the board, under the
chairmanship of Mr P. J. Venter, are black. [Text] [Pretoria Department of
Information in English 1027 GMT 4 Jul 78 LD]

cso: 5500

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NAN IN YUGOSLAVIA--"P011 Item"--Lagos, 12 Jul (TANJUG)--The News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) has begun operation here. Its officials say the agency
seeks cooperation with the nonalined countries! news-agency pool and with

coverage of developments in Nigeria, its positions on current international
and African problems, and its activity within the nonalined movement .
[Text] [Belgrade TANJUG in English 0904 GMT 12 Jul 78 LD]

cso: 5500