Completed Development AidData Chinese Aid

Chinese Government provides an RMB 100 million grant for modernization of Turkmenistan's telecommunications network (Linked to Record ID#73056)

¥100M RMB

Funder	China Ministry of Commerce
Recipient Organization	Government of Turkmenistan
Country	Turkmenistan
Start Date	Jan 03, 2005
End Date	Feb 19, 2028
Duration	8,447 days
Number of Grantees	1
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	AidData Chinese Aid
Grant ID	`69355`

Grant Description

In March 2005, an RMB 100 million contract was signed between Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and the Turkmen Ministry of Telecommunications for the supply and deliver of equipment for the modernization of Turkmenistan’s telecommunication network. This contracted included the provision of digital switching equipment with a total capacity to 140,312 lines.

According to the Turkmen Ministry of Communications, the Chinese Government financed this a state-of-the-art digital telephone station, ETS-460D, was installed in Ashgabat by Huawei and Turkmen specialists in February 2005. This station provided cellular radio-telephone services in CDMA.

The project was linked to a grant Record ID#73056 for the training of Turkmen specialists in China, which is also signed during an official visit of Zhang Zhigang, China’s vice minister for commerce (MOFCOM), to the republic, the Ashgabat correspondent of Turkmenistan in 2005.

📋 Staff Comments

The Atlantic article states that financing for the CDMA grid was provided 'by grants and interest-free loans', while other official sources (reported by media sources) said that the project was financed through a grant. The later was chosen. 'Year uncertain' box was checked because it is not clear year this grant was committed to.

📚 Sources & References

Chinese Telecoms May Be Spying on Large Numbers of Foreign Customers
Chinese specialists help install new digital telephone station in Turkmenistan
Turkmen-Chinese intergovernmental talks held in Ashgabat
Turkmen government signs CHY100 million deal with Huawei, c2019
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