German overhaul is led by phones

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Eastern Germany is modernizing its telecommunications system by spending $30 billion on the implementation of a new telephone network. The new equipment will replace switching systems installed in the early 1900s. Long-term plans call for an increase in the number of telephone connections in the area from 2.4 million to 7.1 million by 1997. Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, the telecommunications arm of Germany's state-owned postal and telephone monopoly, is overseeing the modernization and plans to replace old copper cables with 10 million miles of fiber-optic and copper cables and 2,000 digital telephone switching exchanges. The company expects to install 120,000 high-speed lines for long-distance computer communications and will install 68,000 public telephone booths. Telekom also is installing 100 new satellites and microwave transmission stations. The program is running on schedule so far. Some US competition may affect the pricing of long-distance calls to the US and Canada.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Long distance telephone services, Design and construction, Digital communications, Long-distance telephone service, Telephone systems, Computer system conversion, Telephone System, Strategic Planning, System Conversion, Digital Communication, Deutsche Bundespost Telekom

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Can an Eastern company survive in a Western world?; The strategy of a Dresden company is to make Siemens a partner

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Robotron was once the most significant electronics company in the Eastern bloc, but when East Germany's economy collapsed, Robotron went with it. The company was broken up in an attempt to salvage parts of it. Now, four months after the monetary union of Germany, Dieter Walter, formerly with Robotron, manages Computer-Eletronik Dresden GmbH (CED), which is the core of what was Robotron's computer-making division. CED is said to have a good chance for survival, having found a strong partner in Siemens AG, West Germany's largest electronics company. West Germany seems determined to turn things around in East Germany by applying shock therapy and worrying about the consequences later. In fact, what was East Germany has emerged as a kind of a test case for all of Eastern Europe.

Welding apparatus, Electrical industrial apparatus, not elsewhere classified, Computer industry, Economic aspects, Investments, Economic development, Electronics industry, Siemens AG, Communist countries, Electronic Industry, Computer Elektronik Dresden GmbH, Robotron Corp.

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Telefonica's brave new world; a strategy with a Latin American centerpiece

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Juan Villalonga has led Spain's Telefonica in an aggressive expansion plan in Latin America. His strategy has been to acquire communications technology firms and then spin them off at a high profit. Villalonga sees the production of mass media content at the next big area for technology industry growth and profit.

Spain, Latin America, Telefonica S.A.

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