Aleppo-Sana
The Syrian Telecom Company in Aleppo has put 21850 telephone lines and 13587 internet gates in service since the beginning of the current year until the date, so that the total number of phone lines placed in the investment is 281071 phone lines and 167866 internet gates.
Eng. Anwar Rahwan, director of the Syrian Telecom Company branch in Aleppo, explained to the SANA Economic Bulletin that the number of telephone centers serving the governorate reached 23 telephone centers, 17 optical access units, and 3 wireless stations to improve the telephone service provided to citizens due to damage to the communications system infrastructure as a result of terrorism.
Rahwan pointed out that the company has worked to rehabilitate and operate the Khan al-Wazir communications center in the old city with a capacity of 20,000 numbers after it was destroyed by armed terrorist organizations, which serves commercial and tourism activities in the city of Aleppo, and the process of rehabilitating the Sanaa Muhaidli call center, which has also been vandalized, will be placed. Serving soon to feed the densely populated areas and neighborhoods of Dam Al Lawz, Al Sha'ar, Karam Al-Beik, Qaraleq and Bab Al-Hadid.
He added that work is currently underway to implement the projects that were approved in the cabinet session that was held in Aleppo during the month of last February and cost two billion and 750 million Syrian pounds to restore the telephone service to the call centers of the Hajj Bridge in Medina, Al-Zarbah, Tal Hadya, Khan Al-Asal, Hayyan, Anadan, Kafr Hamra, Kafr Dael and Al-Hader Abtain, Al-Wadhihi, and Tal Shagheeb in the governorate countryside, indicating that work is underway to expand services in the regions and neighborhoods that suffer from bottlenecks in the network in addition to the restoration of networks affected by terrorism, whose areas have witnessed the return and stability of residents in the neighborhoods of Salah al-Din, Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud.
Rahwan indicated that the services provided in the eastern and southeastern countryside have been expanded after the rehabilitation of the damaged communication centers in Al-Sefira, Tal Hasel, Keweeris, Debsi Afnan, Maskanah, Deir Hafer, Rasm Al-Harmal, Abu Jabbar, Maskanah Sharq, Al Khufsa and Khanasser, in addition to launching the “FTTH” service, the Internet project via optical fibers.
Qusay Razzouk
SANA Economic Bulletin