It's not a huge amount of work to be done. The ITU Arab Region Y2K Task Force meeting was held in Amman, Jordan, in the period 20-22 April 1999. The meeting was organized jointly by the ITU Regional Office in Cairo and the Jordan Telecommunications Company, and was hosted by a kind invitation from Jordan Telecom. Representatives from Djibouti registered for the participation in the meeting, but they were not able to attend. After completing the inventory, Telecom Egypt signed contracts for fixing the problems by software patches or the substitution of complete switching systems.
Work is currently in progress to upgrade the systems, and some switches have already been changed.
Tests are being currently performed on switching and transmission systems, and the tests are expected to be completed by end of June 1999. They considered alternate methods that can be used in case of failures. Some experts will be consulted to perform network testing, which is expected to be finished by September 1999. Copyright 1999 Richard Collins , All rights reserved.