Improved Mobile Services in Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Afghan Wireless has completed installation of a new 100,000-line Siemens mobile switch, which will significantly upgrade network capabilities as well as add capacity to Afghanistan's capital city network. The switch is currently being tested and is expected to be ready for commercial launch in the next few weeks.

Apart from providing capacity to serve Kabul's ever-expanding population, the switch also enables Afghan Wireless to extend service to Jalalabad. Afghan Wireless will redeploy existing equipment to Jalalabad and other cities where service has not yet been initiated.

The switch upgrade compliments a total network upgrade program for Kabul that began in February, when TSI, the U.S. parent of Afghan Wireless, agreed to purchase more than

Posted to the site on 26th November 2003