Iran´s Present Telecommunication System and Its Expected Development

By the end of the Fifth Plan, March 21, 1978, Iran will have expanded its telecommunication service threefold, it will be providing educational program and television to nearly 75 percent of its population, and it will be well on its way to accomplishing its longrange goal of a totally integrated telecommunication system. It will have graduated telecommunication engineers and technicians from the PTT College of Telecommunications Engineering. Radio and television production specialists will be graduated from the NIRT College which recently incorporated a Master´s Program. It will also have expanded present telecommunication manufacturing capabilities and started new joint ventures. Where it is now, where it intends to be, and how it intends to get there are described in this paper.