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Jordan seeks tenders for broadband
12 July 2012
Government of Jordan to ask for more bids to complete work on building national broadband network
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Jordan’s ministry of information and communications technology is expected to announce a new tender for the national broadband network project in the third quarter of 2012, according to local reports.
The ministry has already received bids from Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, HP and Huawei, but it has decided to seek further bids. Ministry official Haitham Qaisi told the Jordan Times: “We are waiting for the cabinet’s approval to float a new tender. Upon its approval, we will prepare all the required documents. We expected to offer the tender in the third quarter of this year.”
The project — to link all public schools and universities to the country’s fibre-optic network — started in 2003 and was extended in 2007 to include healthcare centres, government agencies and hospitals but was suspended in 2008 as a result of the global economic crisis.
The government announced in February 2012 that it would create a company for the completion of the broadband network.
Qaisi added: “The government wanted to complete the project on its own but could not because of the lack of funds. We called on the private sector companies to contribute to establishing a firm to complete the project but they did not submit requests to officially form such a company.” GTB
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