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Article: Huge Microwave Radio Project Set for West African Nations.
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- Communications News
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- October 1, 1984
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No less than eight international telecommunications companies--two from France and one each from the United States, Italy, Canada, West Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom--have tendered bids for the second phase of a massive $45-million plan to provide an integrated telecommunications network for West Africa being drawn up by the Lome, Togo-based ECOWAS Fund for Cooperation, Compensation and Development.
The first phase of the project, code-named Intelcom 1, is already under way and scheduled to be completed by October 1985. It includes four links--between Ghana and Upper Volta, Benin and Upper Volta, Nigeria and Niger, and Mali and the Ivory Coast.
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