Hama-sana
During the past year, the Hama Telecom Branch completed a number of vital projects in addition to maintenance and rehabilitation operations for switchboards and telephone networks in areas liberated from terrorism.
Engineer Munib Al-Asfar, Director of the Hama Communications Branch, said in a statement to SANA's correspondent today that the provision of telephone services in the governorate has expanded to include the villages and communities of Kafr Qaddah, Jadreen, Khirbet Al Qasr and Khirbet Aref, which previously lacked telephone services.
Al-Asfar clarified that with regard to the completed communication projects, 3 optical transmission units were equipped in Salamiyah city and put them into service and investment, with the project of converting the copper cables in the village of Tal Jadid to a optical access unit with a capacity of 896 telephone numbers, and in the Salhab area, the expanded telephone network is now under connection in preparation for its placement In the next three months, and in the Al-Ghab region, the Azizia phone center was rehabilitated after it was damaged by terrorism, with all the expansion work that the center witnessed during the years 2018, 2019 and 2020 put into active service soon, in addition to the return of telephone service to the town of Hayalin after its networks and equipment prolonged acts of looting and sabotage. By terrorism during the past years.
And in the northern Hama countryside liberated from terrorism, the Suran Telephone Center was opened in 2020 after its rehabilitation from the damage it suffered as a result of terrorist attacks, and it has a capacity of 10,000 numbers, a large part of which has been put into service with the restart of internet portals in addition to the completion of the first phase of the telephone center The goodness of the Imam, which includes 2,500 lines out of 10,000 lines, and the network is currently being extended and connected.
With regard to the Masyaf area, the engineer Al-Asfar said that the expansion project, which is scheduled to be completed during the current year, will have tangible positive results in improving the quality of the network and upgrading its services, in addition to equipping and operating optical access units in the village of Tayr Jumlah and Mazraat Al-Amal, while finalizing the expansion of Internet portals In Shumaisah, Fandara, and Hailin, there are 500 gates each, marking their operation during the next few weeks.
In the Mahrada region, Asfar referred to the restoration of telephone services to a large number of villages and communities located in the vicinity of the region after defeating terrorism, through the rehabilitation of their networks and equipment such as the Sheer, Majdal, Kafrhood and Al Jadidah, with the installation of optical access units in a number of them.
Regarding the investment plan for the Hama Telecom branch to be implemented during the year 2021, the branch director revealed that there are expansion works in the town of Wadi Al-Ayoun, the city of Hama, and the Al-Shuhada neighborhood in Deir Al-Salib, as well as a plan to resume telephone service in Al-Jinan, Tremseh and Aqrab, with the rehabilitation of building the two divisions of Morek and Kafr Zeit.
Regarding the city of Hama, he announced that the "BDH" project will be implemented, which is a service that provides standard internet speeds and high quality and a platform for the rest of the other applications, indicating that the optical cable is against interference or other influences.
It is noteworthy that the total number of subscribers to the landline phone service in Hama is 315,000 subscribers, and 175,000 Internet gates have been installed, bringing the service providers to 60 percent of the total number of subscribers.
Abdullah Sheikh