tcora@pica.army.mil (Tom Coradeschi) (03/03/91)
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.
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