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Article: Soldiers help set up phone network in Northern Iraq.(Circuit check: news and trends of interest to the Signal Regiment)
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- Army Communicator
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- December 22, 2003
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AL SULAIMANYA, Iraq -- Army News Service--Members of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) participated in a two-day conference in the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq to set up a telephone network centered on the city of Mosul.
The birth of a communications network would connect more people in Iraq. Prior to the war, about three percent of the houses in Iraq had telephones; current levels are at about eight percent, said MSG James Price, division radio noncommissioned officer in charge, 101st Airborne Division.
Without a proper network many people couldn't call those outside of their villages.
"If you think of a hotel where you can call ...