The order is worth a total of around 1.8 billion yen and NEC will complete these systems by September 1999.
Some villages have no telephone lines at all.
WLL is a wireless telephone system designed to provide a direct connection between a public telephone exchange and individual subscribers quickly, economically and with wire-line quality in both urban and rural areas. NEC's WLL system offers not only a solution to the final distribution problem but also offers a purely wireless integrated network including approach links between a public exchange and radio base station. NEC's WLL is based on the Japanese PHS standard, one of the most advanced digital cordless technologies. PHS cell stations can each support a wide cell area and handle up to 128 subscribers. In Africa, telephone penetration rate is still low and the improvements in telecommunications infrastructure is the immediate mission.