Barisal phones to take 2 months more for normal operation

Sources in T& T Department here said conversion of 1600 lines starting with number '5' to number '6' will be completed within this month.

But the new 1000-line exchange being installed by a Chinese company will not start functioning before the first week of next month.

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Then the company will start installation of another 2000-line new exchange, which may start functioning in March, the sources said.

All telephones will be functional after the whole work is completed, they said.

Tender for setting up another new exchange with a capacity of 7000 lines has been floated. The work will begin within the current financial year. New telephone connections would be given after that.

Mentionably, 4700 telephones starting with digit '5' under Barisal Divisional Telephone Exchange suddenly collapsed on December 15 as the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) at the Central Processing Unit (CPU) went out of order. The CPU was installed by ITALTEL Company of Italy.