U5434122@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (10/31/90)
From {The Age} Tuesday, 30 October, 1990. Melbourne, Australia.
Cambodia to get telecommunications via OTC
Cambodia this month began its first modern telecommunications links to
the outside world using a satellite earth station installed by OTC
International, Australia's overseas arm of OTC. [The Australian
Overseas Telecommunications Commission.]
It claims to provide the first realistic opportunity for the many
thousands of Cambodian-born Australians to have telephone contact with
friends and relatives in Cambodia, but will also link globally
throughout the OTC International Network.
The 7.5 metre Vista earth station was supplied and installed in the
capital city, Phnom Penh, by OTC International under a commercial with
the Directorate of Posts and Telecommunications, DPT, of Cambodia.
Formerly, says OTC, Cambodia has had to rely on a relatively
antiquated network provided through the Soviet Intersputnik system.
Under the contract OTC International and DPT will share investment
costs and revenues, and OTC International, which already holds
contracts in Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka and Thailand, will further
develop the Cambodian communications system and training services,
over a ten year period.