Jordan Telecom (JT)is close to completing the installation of a high-speed fibre optic cable link from Amman to the border with Iraq which will open up data services from Baghdad. Chief executive officer Pierre Mattei told MEED on 1 June that the cable could be operational by the end of July. 'International switch traffic from Iraq was lost during the war. Once the cable is ready we will be in a position to help supply internet and international call services but with government support,' he said.
MCIof the US has won the first major telecoms contract under the reconstruction program. The contract awarded by the US Department of Defence involves the set up of a limited mobile network in Baghdad to help civil governance and reconstruction. Most of the country's fixed line network, which was installed by France's Alcatelin the 1980s, was destroyed during the war (MEED 23:5:03).
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