The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) signed an agreement providing for the procurement  of a digital transmission technology equipment  on 10th  January 2005 at the Corporation’s head office with Norwegian based NERA Company.

The procurement of  the transmission equipment is made with a total outlay of Birr 84,499,114.51 (US Dollar 9,574,645).

The procurement of the transmission equipment made of such technologies as       Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) and Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) would realize ETC’s target of enabling the country’s regional towns get access  to  modern digital transmission services . It was learnt that a digital transmission format would be used  in      optical (fiber) networks to transport  high speed data signals .

The PDH radio transmission technology system has a capacity to interconnect 169 small towns across the country,  while the SDH radio technology would interconnect seven large transmission links and it would enable the corporation to implement the target of    establishing the second additional  switches to interconnect four  major urban centers like Nazareth, Bahir Dar, Dire Dawa and Mekelle with modern fiber optic networks.

The agreement was signed by ETC’s Chief Executive Officer , Ato Tesfaye Birru, and by Mr. Sevenn Skutle,  African Sales Director of NERA Company.