Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: tcora@pica.army.mil (Tom Coradeschi) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: AT&T Ready to Hook Up Again Message-ID: Date: 3 Mar 91 00:44:00 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 30 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 171, Message 2 of 10 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hub.eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu That was the headline above a short blurb in today's (28 Feb 91) Newark, NJ {Star-Ledger}. The story read: America Telephone & Telegraph will re-establish long-distance telephone service with Kuwait by the weekend, the company said yesterday. In cooperation with the Kuwait Ministry of Communications, AT&T will be setting up long-distance equipment for the first time since the Iraqi invasion in August. A spokesman for the communications giant said it was moving a portable satellite earth station and electronics equipment from Saudi Arabia to Kuwait City and expected it to be installed and operating by the weekend. The first long-distance service will be via 120 lines on telephones to be installed at a site designated by the Ministry of Communications, an AT&T spokesman said. The company and the Kuwait government also are discussing ways to restore ground communications within the war-ravaged country. As a side note, an article in yesterday's {Wall Street Journal} discusses the heated (frenzied!) bidding for contracts to rebuild the infrastructure within Kuwait. AT&T is certainly not the only firm looking for work there. tom coradeschi <+> tcora@pica.army.mil <+> tcora@dacth01.bitnet