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Caption: The Al-Mamoun Telephone Exchange where repair work will restore telephone services to approximately 30,000 subscribers. Al-Mamoun is one of 12 telephone exchanges in the Baghdad region which were deystroyed in the recent conflict. USAID partner Bechtel is working with the Iraqi Telephone and Postal Company to restore landline telephone service and provide a gateway for international telephone service. Iraqi workers begin to splice cables into the new exchange. The first international telephone call through the new Al-Mamoun exchange is scheduled for 23 October, 2003.

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