[Info-tech] Monaco link for phones (Financial Times, November 30 1999) (fwd)

[Ismet Hamiti]

Jungjatjeta te gjitheve,
Artikulli te cilit i referohet Mentori ka dale nga kuzhina e disa
individeve ne UNMIK, te cilet me cdo kusht duan t'a anashkalojne PTK-ne,
natyrisht per hesap te vetin. Nuk e besoj se do te kene sukses sepse PTK
i njef mire keta individe dhe motivet e tyre, por edhe UNMIK-u nuk e
besoj se do te qendroje gjate prapa tyre. Megjitheate, per fat te keq,
ata po i pengojne shume perpjekjet e PTK-se per t'u rimkembur. Po te mos
ishin zvarritjet e tyre byrokratike, rrjeti mobil ne Kosove, VALA 900,
do te "valezonte" tashme ne te gjitha qytetet kryesore te Kosoves.
PTK nuk dorezohet lehte...
Me shume respekt,
Ismet Hamiti

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mentor Cana [SMTP:mentor at alb-net.com]
> Sent:	01 December 1999 03:01
> To:	info-tech at alb-net.com
> Subject:	[Info-tech] Monaco link for phones (Financial Times,
> November 30 1999) (fwd)
> 
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> Hello,
> 
> Seems like UNMIK is totally ignoring Kosova Telecom disagreement
> with the choice of Alacatel???
> 
> later,
> Mentor
> ---
> http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q2eb75e.htm
> 
> November 30 1999
> 
> KOSOVO: Monaco link for phones
> 
> By Kevin Done, East Europe Correspondent
> 
> International callers to Kosovo's planned mobile telephone network are
> likely to find themselves dialling Monaco for a connection under a
> scheme being formulated by United Nations officials in Pristina.
>      The use of the Monaco code is part of a package solution offered
> by
> Alcatel, the French telecommunications equipment supplier, to overcome
> the problems of Kosovo's ill-defined international status.
>      The French group has been selected in an international tender to
> supply equipment for a mobile phone network in a contract understood
> to
> be worth around DM35m ($18.4m), one of the biggest to be awarded since
> the start of the Kosovo reconstruction effort.
>      A final contract is expected to be signed in the next two weeks
> between Alcatel and PTK, the Post and Telecommunications enterprise in
> the territory of Kosovo, with a parallel deal with Monaco Telecom for
> services such as roaming, access codes and billing.
>      The development of a mobile telecoms network across Kosovo is
> urgently needed to overcome the present woeful state of
> telecommunications in the province. Nato bombing put out of action
> much
> of the fixed line network.
>      International calls are routed via Belgrade, but there are only a
> few lines available with a low chance of getting through in the
> daytime.
>      The existing Yugoslav mobile phone network, Mobtel, does not
> function outside Pristina and only connects spasmodically with the
> outside world.
>      The deal, expected to be signed shortly with Monaco Telecom, is
> designed to obtain an early start-up with an international access code
> and immediate roaming agreements to allow the use of foreign mobile
> phones inside Kosovo, says Pascal Copin, UNMIK director for posts and
> telecommunications.
>      Kosovo lacks the sovereign status needed to qualify for its own
> international access code.
>      The UN Security Council resolution which established the UN
> administration in Kosovo leaves the province within the "sovereignty
> and
> territorial integrity" of Yugoslavia, implying in the telecoms sector
> the use of Yugoslavia's 381 access code. Belgrade is likely to seize
> on
> this move as further evidence of its sovereignty being undermined.
>      The deal with Monaco would avoid dependence on Belgrade for
> international access, however, and opens the prospect of a quick
> improvement to Kosovo telecommunications.
>      In the first stage the seven main towns and Pristina airport
> should
> be connected to a mobile GSM network within 12 weeks of the contract
> being signed and coverage of most of the remaining population should
> be
> provided within 12 months.
>      Financing is expected to be provided through supplier credits to
> be
> repaid from revenues generated by the new service.
> 
> © Copyright The Financial Times Limited 1999.
> 
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