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Telikom, MCC sign deal on
satellite link
THE Ramu cobalt-nickel project in
Madang will have direct satellite link with its headquarters in
China.
This will become possible with the signing of a long-term deal
between Telikom (PNG) and miner China Metallurgical Group Corp (MCC).
The state-of-the-art satellite link will transmit high-speed voice
and data traffic between the miner and its headquarters in
Beijing.
MCC is a huge global minerals conglomerate now developing PNG’s
first nickel mine.
Forty voice and data lines will be installed at the Madang
headquarters of the operations, 40 more at the Basamuk refinery,
and another 20 at the Kurumbukari mine site.
All traffic will be carried by Telikom’s high-speed ViaSat system.
Kone Kula, Telikom manager for customer engineering, said this was
very large resource development that was also important to the PNG
economy.
“Communications and data transfer are vital to the operations of
what is a continuous smelting and refining process,” Mr Kula said.
He added that MCC was a global organisation and was very specific
in what it needs.
“Telikom has the technical capacity to install and operate these
satellite links on a constant-availability basis,” Mr Kula added.
James Wong, MCC’s chief technical officer, Peter Loko, Telikom
acting chief executive, signed the multi-million kina deal in Port
Moresby last Friday.
Telikom will mobilise engineers and equipment to the site on a
schedule that matches the nickel project’s early start date.
 
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