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| Sunday, 3 February 2002 |
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4,000 lines planned Telecom boost for Jaffna by E. WEERAPPERUMA Sri Lanka Telecom Limited (SLT) under a new project "Hope" designed to help the civilians in Jaffana will increase the number of telephone lines to the peninsula to 4,000 with immediate effect. According to SLT sources the accelerated project to install new telephone lines in the Jaffna peninsula follows as a result of the recent visit made by SLT CEO Shuhei Anan, who had seen for himself the deplorable standard of telecom facilities in that region. On his return, Mr. Anan launched the project "Hope" as a crash program to improve telecommunication facilities as he had personally seen that the telecom facilities provided to Jaffna peninsula were very old, dilapidated and had only very few lines to serve the general public. The SLT staff is now busy endeavouring their best to provide a service with new equipment. The SLT which has given top priority to the project 'Hope' has already begun transporting a large consignment of cables and other equipment to install a modern telecom network with good switching facilities in the Jaffna peninsula. The SLT hopes to complete the project before the land routes to Jaffna are fully re-opened as heavy vehicular traffic on these roads is bound to stall the speed of the cable work. Mr. Anan is hopeful that with the augumentation of telecommunication facilities, communication links to the Jaffna peninsula with the rest of the country will improve commerce and trade ties and change the general lifestyle of the people there. |
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