wiredinUSA October 2011

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In recent months, field teams from Qtel have laid out over 1,200 kilometers of fiber cable throughout Doha, capable of connecting more than 60,000 homes. After initial work in the West Bay Lagoon area, teams are working in parts of the Al Kharatiyat and Al Waab areas of Doha, with plans to move into new districts in the very near future. The fiber team will increase to almost 1,000 installers in the coming months to hasten the migration to fiber. The move into the migration phase is a major step in the long-term development of world-class internet infrastructure in Qatar, and marks the culmination of months of planning, development and implementation for the new Qtel Fiber network. 1,200 kilometers of fiber cable across Doha

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation Ltd has reported a drop in second-quarter profit, with revenue growth of 40 percent offset by lower gross margin and higher expenses. For the second quarter, net income attributable to APWC shareholders dropped to $2.4 million from $3.7 million in the year-ago period. Earnings per share fell to $0.17 from $0.27 last year. Revenues for the quarter grew 40.3 percent to $148.7 million from $106.0 million in the year-ago quarter. Sequentially, revenues improved 22.1 percent from $121.8 million in the first quarter of 2011. Gross profit margin for the quarter declined to 11.0 percent from 13.4 percent in the year-ago period. Selling, general and administrative expenses were $9.9 million, an increase of 42.8 percent from the year-ago quarter. The majority of the company’s products and services are used in industrial, power and telecommunications infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region. Asia Pacific Wire & Cable profits down

Nexans will be supplying Petrofac’s new processing plant with over 1,800km of specialized, armored and hydrocarbon resistant, low voltage power cables over the next 12 months. The plant will serve the South Yoloten gas field, sited around 400km southeast of Ashgabat, the country’s capital city. When the development project is completed, from 2013 onwards, it is expected to export 20 million cubic meters per annum (bcma) of gas. On behalf of Turkmengas, the state-owned national gas company, Petrofac is providing the engineering, procurement and commissioning services for the 10 million bcma gas processing plant along with the infrastructure and pipelines for the complete development. The LV cables will be manufactured at the Nexans plant in Turkey and coordi- nated by the local Nexans sales engineering team, based in Dubai, together with the Nexans sales team in Istanbul. Turkmenistan project makes cable contract

Fiber optic network throughout Angola

The executive director of the technical department of Angola Telecom, Alvaro Brito Alves, has revealed that Angola Telecom has covered the entire country with its fiber optic network. Speaking to the press after a meeting with the Secretary of State for Science and Technology, João Sebastião Teta, Alvaro Brito Alves said the fiber optic network covers the major cities and some municipalities, an area of 10,000 kilometers. He explained that infrastructure and road construction, and damage caused to cables by rodents, are the chief causes of the daily cuts, adding that these factors cause additional costs in maintenance, reconstruction and transporting technicians from Luanda to other provinces.

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