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Historical abstract about
telecommunications and post In Iraq
The
ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia
are the cradle of human
civilization. They reflect for us
the older trace of the post role.
They had been left many letters of
clay sheets and these civilizations
prove about their pioneer role of
invention of social communication
device which consider the first way
for communication. Every one know
that the wheel had been invented in
ancient Iraq and this give us
another signal about the Iraqi role
in invention of the first
communication device represented by
Akadian Cabriolet of post discovered
about 2400 B.C . The wheel of time
continue and invaded forces succeed
on our fruitful country but the post
remains in spite of every thing ,
The first communication device which
had been knew by humanity . We reach
the period of ottoman invasion of
Iraq . This period considers worst
period in post history in Iraq that
the post remained between 1500 and
1900 under the control of ottoman
colonialism that which we can call
it the dark era .After four
centuries of invasion our country
wakes up to find itself in a modern
age and after that Iraq became under
the controlling of English
colonialism and they unify the post
office and telegram office to be one
office in 1919 and after that the
ministry of labors in 1919 it
contained the post and telegraph
office and the grace of founding
telegraph service related to the
English authority in that time
because it has great desire to make
contact with the orient . They had
establish communication line from
India to Basra throw sea and towards
Baghdad throw the river bed of
tigress river in the middle of 19th
century. The beginning of 20th
century the phone was born to be one
of the main devices in
communication world among the
societies .the first switch has been
established in Iraq and middle east
in 1920 with a capacity of 300 lines
and also another manual switch had
been established in Baghdad with a
capacity 500 lines and telephone
service expanded as result of
increasing of people so the post,
telegraph and telephone office was
ready to prepare projects and plans
to cover these increasing and from
technical and administrational
needs motivated to extend its work
and after that became the foundation
of post telegraph and telephone .
The development contains all the
sectors naturally the communication
field get a apart from this
development .With the beginning of
satellite communications and
microwave transmission and telex
.This foundation became the
responsible of operation and
maintaining the telecommunications
system and installing networks for
this purpose . Its name has been
change to be the establishment of
telecommunications and post .After a
period of time it can cover the
regions and cities by
telecommunications services and in
1997 the name has been change to be
the Iraqi telecommunication and post
company (I.T.P.C) .The I.T.P.C keeps
up with a development with the field
of telecommunication and another era
begins with the establishment of
optical fiber at the end of 20th
century and we call this ((the era
of optical fiber telecom and all the
regions and parts of our country has
been covered with an optical network
.After the military actions in 2003
and the switches has been operated
in Baghdad and governorates in a
very short time and new services
innovated like WLL and this service
prove its success in Baghdad and
Najaf that it let our officials in
ministry and I.T.P.C to think
seriously to contact all the
governorates of Iraq . so the
communication will remain one of the
main devices used to continue the
contact among the societies and also
the post will remain responsible and
the center when the humankinds built
this relations throw the words and
letters in spite of the spread of
globalization era and internet its
like a salt which has hardly to find
food free of it |
