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        "id": 1061406,
        "msgid": "telecom-deal-in-cambodia-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-04-23 00:00:00",
        "title": "Telecom deal in Cambodia",
        "author": null,
        "source": "REUTERS",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Telecom deal in Cambodia PHNOM PENH (Reuter): Cambodia's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MOPT) has signed a US$60 million deal with Luxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular SA (MICSA) for setting up GSM services, a ministry official said yesterday. Phan Phin, under secretary of state for the MOPT, said the ministry signed the multi-million dollar deal on Saturday.",
        "content": "<p>Telecom deal in Cambodia<\/p>\n<p>PHNOM PENH (Reuter): Cambodia's Ministry of Post and<br>\nTelecommunications (MOPT) has signed a US$60 million deal with<br>\nLuxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular SA (MICSA) for<br>\nsetting up GSM services, a ministry official said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Phan Phin, under secretary of state for the MOPT, said the<br>\nministry signed the multi-million dollar deal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is a joint venture with the Ministry of Post and<br>\nTelecommunications for the setting up of the GSM (global system<br>\nmobile) network throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>\"The investment project is worth US$60 million and the<br>\ncontract will run for 25 years,\" Phan Phin told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>He said the GSM service, due to be installed in nine months<br>\nfrom the signing of the contract, would bring \"big improvements\"<br>\nto Cambodia's decayed telecommunications network.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia has one of the lowest telephone density rates in the<br>\nworld with less than one telephone per one hundred people.<\/p>",
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