The cell phone has become critical to the rebuilding of Afghanistan. Until the April 2002 start of Afghan Wireless, there were only 12,000 functioning telephones in the city of Kabul, where the population approaches two million. Now wireless service, begun in Kabul and extending to major cities across the country, is connecting government officials to each other and their counterparts around the world. The fixed wireline network is so damaged that the government has decided not to attempt repairs. Instead, Afghanistan will become an all-wireless nation. (Source: Associated Press)
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Copyright © 2002-2004 by Steve Stroh. This article originally appeared on my original Broadband Wireless Internet Access Weblog hosted on Radio Userland. This article was backdated to June 25, 2002 from July 2, 2002.
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