BT engineers help quake recovery
A team of British engineers is in Pakistan helping to restore the devastated communications network following the recent earthquake, BT has announced.
The company has sent a dozen workers to the
Satellite dishes are being installed in remote areas so relief groups can coordinate their efforts and local people can contact relatives.
It follows a similar BT operation when staff were sent to Indonesia after the deadly tsunami which struck there last year.
The firm has sent a team to Rawalpindi and others are set to go to three other remote parts of the country accessible only by helicopter.
BT has been in touch with government officials and relief coordinators to find out which areas were most in need of help.
Rawalpindi was targeted because it is the main communications centre for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Mr Stockman said.
Source: Scotsman.com News
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