dross@cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross) (10/31/90)
Pinched from _Network_World_, Oct. 29, 1990, "Briefs", p. 2:
Armenia to be Gateway to East.
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AT&T last week announced plans to ship a 5ESS central office switch
and satellite earth station to Soviet Armenia. The equipment will be
used by the republic's telephone agency as an international gateway
for communications to the U.S., providing an alternative to routing
traffic through Moscow, which is currently the only international
gateway in the Soviet Union. An AT&T spokesman said Armenia is the
only republic that has permission to operate its telephone net
independent of the central government.
Dan Ross dross@cs.wisc.edu