Labels:text | screenshot | vehicle | land vehicle OCR: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY partnership with Vietnamese authorities to develop laying 2,100 kilometres of optical-fibre cable from the nation's telecommunications, including the in- Islamabad to Karachi. stallation of satellite earth stations in Ho Chi Minh But Asia is not the only region where Telstra City and Hanoi, an intemational gateway and do- has major investments. mestic exchanges, optical-fibre cable and other In Saudi Arabia, the company is now part way equipment as well as the provision of training and through its second contract to assist with the op- management services. Since the project began, eration and management of the country's tele- Vietnam's international telephone traffic has in- communications network. creased 40-fold. Telstra is also a joint-ven- ture partner in Thailand's Telstra's projects in Vietnam Samart Telcoms, which pro- have included the installation of vides a range of services to satellite earth stations in Ho Chi the Thai business community Minh City and Hanoi, an based on high-speed satellite international gateway and do mest ic exchanges, op tical- data communications. fibre cable and other equipment In the South Pacific, Telstra devised and built the Pacific 850 GLI Area Co-operative Telecom- munications (PACT) network to provide cost effective com- munications to the widely separated and sparsely pop- ulated island-nations. In Pakistan, the company is
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