JPRS ID: 9072 WORLDWIDE REPORT TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

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_ 5 May 1980
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_ TEIECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY, -
RE~EARCH AN~ DEVEIOPMENT
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JPRS L/9072
5 May 1980
WORLDWIDE REPORT
TELECOMMUNI~ATIONS POLICY, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
(FOUO 6/80)
~ CONTENTS
ASIA
INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS
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`JIJI', 'XINHUA' NewsExchange 1
SUB-'SAHAREIN AFRICA
IVORY C6AST _
Briefs
Total TV Coverage Plan 2
RWANDA
Briefs
ITU To Obtain Equipment 3
WEST EUROPE
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- FRG-France Satellite Agreement Expected Before 6 April
(Pierre Langereux; AIR & COSMOS, 9 Feb 80) 4
FRANCE
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TV, Radio Changes 6
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INTER-ASIAN AFFAIRS
BRIEFS "
'JIJI', 'XINHUA' NEWS EXCHANGE--Tokyo, 14 April (JIJI Press)--
JIJI p~ess and the official Chinese News Agency XINHUA Monday concluded an
_ agreement to exchange news articles anc~ photographs. The pact was aigned
at the JIJI preas head office in downtown ~okyo between President Tadayoshi
Ohata and XINHUA President Zeng Tao. Later, Tao and hia party, now in this
country at thP invitation of the major Japanese News Agency, inspected its
main news room. The agreement was a follow-up to s memorandum on news
interchange whicn was signed when a JIJI press mission, led by Ohata, visited
_ ~ China in May last year. [TextJ [OW141335 Tokyo JIJI in English 1308 GMT
14 ~Agr 80 OWJ �
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TOTAL TV COVERAGE PLAN--The national network full territorial coverage pro-
ject, to which ~'rench P:.esident Giscard d'Eataing pledged support, has been
postponed indefinitely by President Houphouet-Boigny. Reason: the work
would cost too much (75 billion CFA francs). The construction of a new
radio-television house (estimated coat: also 75 billion CFA francs) has
_ been scrapped. The measures have caused displeasuxe to Thomson CSF, the
French firm which had been commissioned for. th~ pro~ects. [Paris JEUNE
AFRIQUE in French 29 Feb 80 p 54]
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ITU T~ OBTAIN I~7QUi:PMEPiT--The International Telecommunicati~ns Union [ITU] _
is issuing an important call for bids to supply Rwanda with rural tele-
communications equipment including: radioelectric equipment; antennas ~.nd -
- transmission lines with connection systems; anti-lightnin~ devices;
users'telephone terminals; terminal switching equipment; protective
containers; testing and control appaxatus; spare parts for ane year, and _
optional technical assistance in supervising installations and organizing _
maintenance (finar~cing: UNDP [United Nations Develo~ment Program]
Address bids to the International Telecommunications Union, Places des
- Nations, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland.. A copy of the specifications may -
be obtained in Paris through the CFCE [Council of Commercial Federations of -
Europe~ (telephone 786). [Text] (Paria MARCHES TROPICAUX ET MIDITERRAN- ,
EENS in French 21 Dec 79 p 363~+J 9380 _
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INTERNATIONAL Ab'FAIRS
_ FRG-FRANCE SATELLITE AGREENiE~VT EXPECTED BEFORE 6 APRIL
Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 9 Feb 80 p 49
~Article by Pierre Langereux~
(~Text~ Tne draf t Paris-Bonn intergovernmental agreement on the first
French (TDF 1) and German (TV-SAT) direct TV satellites was forwarded to
the French government on 1 February by the FRG ~Federal Republic of Ger- _
many~ Ministry for Research and Technology ~BmF'_~, according to an
announcement made by Dr H~rmann Strub,director.ot aerospace affairs of the
BmFT, at the opening oE the Symphonie :;ymposium in Berlin on 4 February.
An agreement has already been reached on principle between the French
- minister of Industry and the minister of the BmFT regarding the draft
aqreement. The latter provides for the development, construction and
launching of two pre-operational. satellites for 12-GHz ditect-TV tranamis-
sions, and for the the creation of a Franco-German industrial group to
build these national satQllites and �utute satellites for export. The two
pre-opexational satellites will be launched by Ariane rockets, fro~a Kourou
in 1983 and 1984 reapectivel.y, to broadcast national TV programs. The -
- financial protocol of the draft intergovernmental agreement forwarded to
Paris provides for joint and equal French and German financing of the -
development costs for the pre-operational direct-TV satellites. Germany
plans to dedicate around 250 million DM for its share of the development
costs, according to Doctor Strub. This, together with the French share
_ will thus bring the total developmental program cost to around 1.3 billion
_ francs. However, in consideration of Fr.ance's major share in the Ariane
launcher program, the georlraphical diatribution of the development work
on the pre-operationaX direct-TV satellites will be made on the basis of
_ a 54 percent indus~~~ial return to Germany and 46 percent to France. ~
The draft agreement already ~een worked out in sufficient detail to
serve as a ba~is �or cooperaLion between the two countries, especially
insofar as concerns its technical and tinancial annexes, Doctor Strub said.
_ The two (French and German) ministers concerned also alluded to this docu-
ment during the Franco-German aunanit held this week in Paris. But the
detailed negotiations will take place over the next few weeks. Doctor
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Strub atated that the Germans look forward to concludinq the negotiations
before Easter. The new Franco-Gsrman agreement, therefore, could be signed
within 2 raonths (by the beginning o~ April).
The Foursome
Negc~tiationa with the industrial,ists, however, will begin immediately,
Uoctor Strub said. The production o~ the TDF 1 and TV-5AT television
broadca~t eatellites ia to be entruate@ to the new Franco-German industrial
_ oonsortium formed recently by the four principal firma that had cooperated
_ in the building of the Syntphonie satel.lite: AEROSPATIALE ~National Indus-
trial Aerospace Campany~ and Thomsan-CSF in France, MBB ~expansion unknown~
and AEG Telefunken in Germany.
"The initiative of these ~our tirms," said Mr Pierre ETSUnier, director of
AEROSPATIALE's Ballistics and Space Division, "has been favorably recog-
nized by the two governments." He added that in "this case, "other indus-
trial firms of the two countries will grobably be integrated into the con-
sortium, although the four founding firms will retain reaponsibility for
its projects."
The new consortium is an enlargement of the Franco-German EUROSATELLITE
group formed ataout 3 years ago by AEROSPATIALE and MBB with the Belgian
ETCA ~expansion unknown~ firm, which, according to last minute reports,
will also take part in the production of the Ere nch and G~rman direct-TV
satellites. The new group will probably retain the name EUROSATELLITE.
Hubert Curien, president of the CNES ~National Center for Space Studies
(French)~, asserted that "this arran5:ment was by far the most likely," and
" that he feels "this will very shortly be borne out." The most recent
problems regarding German participation in the ARIANE5PACE company that
produces the European Ariane launchers are seemingl.y on the way to bei,ng
reaolved. "Germany �ully intends to join ARIANESPACE," Doctor Strub
stated categorically. He considers that the definitive contracts i~n this
regard will probabl.y be signed "r,rithin the very next few days."
Thence�orth, there should be no further obstacles to the new French-German
space cooperation decided at t:~e summit, on 2 October 1979, by Chancellor
Schmid t and Preaident Valery Giacard d'Estaing. These French and German
direct-TV satellites w~ii t~ tr~e aequels of the Symphonie +-..elecommunicationa
satellites, whose �ifth anniversary is currently being ce].ebrated in
Berlin. The Franco-German Symphonie satel.lites, launched in 1974 and 1975,
have been used by 34 countries until now, and are still in service.
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FRANCE
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TV, RADIO CHANGES--Some changes are planned ~n top levels of TV and radio
broadcast maaagement. Jacqueline Baudrier will probably become president
of ITV networkJ F,P~ 3; Claude Lemoine will reportedly re~lace her at
Radio-France; and Claude Contamine (of Fr 3) will become an ambassador.
- Jean-Louis Guillaud (of [TV network~ Tf 1) and Maurice Ulrich (of A 2)
will reportedly not change jobs. [TextJ [Paris PARIS MATCH in French
14 Mar 80 p 71] .
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