Iraq Cellular Rollout

Alan Dick has been active in one of the most lucrative areas in the region for expansion, Iraq.

Three groups of Middle East telecoms companies were awarded licences by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) to set up mobile networks in Iraq. The licenses cover Northern, Central and Southern Iraq. (After having met their initial regional commitments within two years operators had the option to extend their concessions to national coverage in order to have three countrywide competing networks by mid 2006).

• Asiacell, a consortium of the local Asiacell Telecom, Wattaniya Telecom Kuwait & Bahrain based United Gulf Bank have been awarded the Northern region (where Asiacell already operates a small network based in Suleimaniya).
• A consortium led by Cairo based Orascom Telecom have been awarded Central region. Lucent has been awarded a fixed line contract for Baghdad.
• The Southern region has been awarded to Atheer Telecom, which comprises Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) of Kuwait, the local Della Telecommunications Corporation and Kuwait based Karafi Group.

Products used in this project:
Co-Acc Filter Systems	Tower Mounted Amplifiers Wireless Installation Components

Alan Dick was awarded contracts in 3 phases covering the Northern and Southern region with their Joint Venture Partner, Hayat Communications in Kuwait

• Phase I : Completed 32 sites in Northern region for Asiacell
  - 10 sites in Mosul for Asiacell
  - 13 sites in Kirkuk for Huawei
  - 9 sites in Suleimaniya for Huawei
• Phase II : 60 sites contracted directly to Asiacell
• Phase III : 150 sites to be awarded in Phase III to provide network capacity

The work carried out was different for each area but was inclusive of undertaking all civil works, product supply and installation of structures with the exception of commissioning the BTS equipment.