Field Coverage

Rehabilitation of the Suez Canal Telecommunications System

1 April 1957

The United Nations purchased a radio and telephone equipment, and International Telephone and Telegraph chartered a plane to fly six tons of apparatus from New York to Egypt. Egyptian personnel then installed the equipment with the advisory assistance of the New York engineer.
Antennas installed on the roof of a building in Ismailia for part of the new equipment. April 1957.

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