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EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920<br />

Work Package: 6<br />

Type of document: Report<br />

Date: 20.12.2007<br />

File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0<br />

Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 351 / 356<br />

and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region), and 1 Inmarsat (Pacific and<br />

Indian Ocean regions); submarine cables to China, Philippines, Russia, and US (via<br />

Guam).<br />

Jordan general assessment: service has improved recently with increased use of digital<br />

switching equipment, but better access to the telephone system is needed in the rural<br />

areas and easier access to pay telephones is needed by the urban public.<br />

domestic: microwave radio relay transmission and coaxial and fiber-optic cable are<br />

employed on trunk lines; considerable use of mobile cellular systems; Internet service<br />

is available.<br />

international: country code - 962; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29<br />

land and maritime Inmarsat terminals; fiber-optic cable to Saudi Arabia and microwave<br />

radio relay link with Egypt and Syria; connection to international submarine cable<br />

FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); participant in MEDARABTEL; international<br />

links total about 4,000.<br />

Kazakhstan general assessment: service is poor; equipment antiquated.<br />

domestic: intercity by landline and microwave radio relay; mobile cellular systems are<br />

available in most of Kazakhstan.<br />

international: country code - 7; international traffic with other former Soviet republics<br />

and China carried by landline and microwave radio relay and with other countries by<br />

satellite and by the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable; satellite earth stations -<br />

2 Intelsat.<br />

Korea, North general assessment: NA<br />

domestic: NA<br />

international: country code - 850; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and<br />

1 Russian (Indian Ocean region); other international connections through Moscow and<br />

Beijing.<br />

Korea, South general assessment: excellent domestic and international services.<br />

domestic: NA<br />

international: country code - 82; fiber-optic submarine cables - 1 Korea-Russia-Japan,<br />

1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong, 3 Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-China-Europe, 1<br />

Korea-Japan-China-US-Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong-<br />

Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 2<br />

Indian Ocean) and 3 Inmarsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean).<br />

Kuwait general assessment: the quality of service is excellent.<br />

domestic: new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers;<br />

trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and open-wire and fiberoptic<br />

cable; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is<br />

well supplied with pay telephones.<br />

international: country code - 965; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Saudi<br />

Arabia; linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; satellite<br />

earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean, 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic

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