Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
02AMMAN2200
2002-05-06 05:51:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Amman
Cable title:  

JORDAN TELECOM PLANS LINKS TO BAGHDAD

Tags:  ECPS PREL IZ JO 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L AMMAN 002200 

SIPDIS

USDOC FOR 4520/ITA/MAC/ONE/PAUL THANOS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/26/2007
TAGS: ECPS PREL IZ JO
SUBJECT: JORDAN TELECOM PLANS LINKS TO BAGHDAD

Classified By: DCM GREGORY L. BERRY. REASONS 1.5 (B)
AND (D).

C O N F I D E N T I A L AMMAN 002200

SIPDIS

USDOC FOR 4520/ITA/MAC/ONE/PAUL THANOS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/26/2007
TAGS: ECPS PREL IZ JO
SUBJECT: JORDAN TELECOM PLANS LINKS TO BAGHDAD

Classified By: DCM GREGORY L. BERRY. REASONS 1.5 (B)
AND (D).


1. (C) According to Jordan Telecom (JTC) CEO Pierre Mattei,
JTC is planning to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to
construct a fiber-optic telecommunications cable link between
Amman and Baghdad within the next month. He said that at
present all Iraqi telecom traffic is currently routed via the
Turkish satellite TurkSat, but this route would offer both
redundancy and considerably higher capacity than the
satellite link.


2. (C) Mattei assured us the route would be built in
conformity with UN and ITU strictures regarding Iraq. He
suggested an Amman-Baghdad link would be more in Western
interests than a possible Damascus-Baghdad connection, which
is an alternative being shopped by Syrian telecom interests.
Mattei added that, according to his information, the
fiber-optic cable connecting Syria and Iraq had been
virtually completed on the Syria side of the border. (JTC is
40 percent owned by France Telecom, from which Mattei is an
employee on loan.)
GNEHM