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From: bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Saudi Arabia's Telephone System
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Date: 17 Nov 90 00:48:14 GMT
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In article <14369@accuvax.nwu.edu> HWT@bnr.ca (Henry Troup) writes:

>Mike Doughney writes:

>> It almost looks like American workers had a hand in its production;

>Bell Canada built and used to operate the Saudi phone system, on
>contract for the government.  I think that the latest operations
>contract went to someone else.

	As someone else pointed out, there is also the Aramco system,
and I happen to know that AT&T also built and maintained a telecom
system in KSA.

	My employer is currently under contract to deliver and deploy
yet another (independent, unconnected) telecom network to Saudi
Arabia, as part of their air defense system. This one will use the
European TDM hierarchy rather than the North American; the switches,
last I knew, were going to be ITT/Alcatel System 10s.


Jeff Carroll
carroll@atc.boeing.com