wiredInUSA April 2019

Cables are ABC

Testing agreement

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UL and Saudi Telecom Company (STC) have announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a testing facility in Saudi Arabia. The new center of excellence will be housed inside STC’s laboratories and will offer testing for FTTH products. UL’s wire and cable division signed the MoU with STC at theMobileWorld Congress 2019, held in Barcelona, Spain. The collaboration is aimed at ensuring a robust network for telecom operators in Saudi Arabia and the GCC countries. With support from UL’s engineering capability, the new facility will help all critical stakeholders along the global supplychain todesign,manufacture, specify and procure compliant products.

Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) is replacing old electricity cables with aerial bundled cables (ABC) in and around Peshawar, Pakistan. Pesco and the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) have begun the replacement of all obsolete electric supply cables with ABC and expect to complete the Peshawar area shortly. This was confirmed at a recent meeting to discuss problems and issues in electricity supply in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, co-presided over by the chief minister Mahmood Khan with federal minister Umar Ayub Khan. The meeting was attended by federal minster Murad Saeed, finance minister KP Taimur Salim Jahgra, senator Fida Hussain, chief executives of PESCO, TESCO, MD NTDC, and the various companies’ heads of construction departments.

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