| The Pristina Illyria
Switch
The total area of Kosovo is around 110,000 square
kilometres and total population is around 2,000,000
inhabitants. The biggest and most important cities
are Pristina, Prizren, Mitrovica, Peje, Gjakova,
Ferizaj and Gjilan. Before the conflict telecommunications
network of Kosovo had around 160,000 users, mostly
of them were connected to electromechanical systems.
The telephone penetration rate was 6% and became
the lowest in Europe after the conflict.
During the NATO air campaign in the territory of
Kosovo, the transmission and switching systems of
the fixed telecommunication infrastructure have
been severely damaged. In Pristina, the main destroyed
parts of the switching system are
• A transit exchange of 4500 trunks
• A local switch of 10,000 subscribers and
a remote unit that had a capacity of 4,000 subscribers
• The part of the local loop located in the
demolished building.
The main objective was the implementation of a
new transit exchange and a local exchange, both
exchanges being possible to combine into a single
facility.
| Technical Assistant: |
Telecomm Austria
and Management Partners |
| Implementation Companies:
|
Siemens Germany and TedeLine
Germany |
| Cost: |
4,5 M € funded by the
European Union |
| Programme manager: |
Otto-Roman Barnert |
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