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Egypt: Unchanged
Egypt: Unchanged
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He and his team are sent to Cairo in 1979 to plan the modernization of Egypts phone service. Phone service at that point is bad. Most of the time there is no dial tone. They think their work can be accomplished in about nine months, but Willis Culpepper of USAID tells them Schedules dont mean a thang here in Egypt. They learn that ARENTO wants technology transfer, plus system redesign, so the nine months will stretch to a year or two. Working with the Egyptians, they see the sorry state of the telephone system, first in Cairo, then in Alexandria. Underground cables failed because of water seeping into the insulation. In between they visit Cairos Souk, Khan El Khalili, and El Alemein. He takes morning runs beside the Pyramids, sometimes enraging the rabid mongrel desert dogs. Bitten, he requires rabies injections. There are no good maps of the cities. His team consults with USAID, and gets the Air Force to do aerial photography of Cairo, and Alexandria. An accelerated course on ESS is given to six Egyptian engineers, and the planning stage is finished at last. Construction contractors are selected through a formal bidding process, and final construction of the upgrade is completed in 1983. Egypt gets the most modern telephone system at the time, but scam artists are still at work at cut-over.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateMar 18, 2011
ISBN9781456733841
Egypt: Unchanged
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John Edgar

The author has a wealth of experience working as a consultant for business, and government clients in Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. Employed by Booz Allen & Hamilton during the cold war on classified projects, GTE as manager, and researcher, then Arthur D. Little as a consultant to various clients, he participated in the developments from transistors to integrated circuits, the ESS, fiber optics, and cell phones. He was keenly aware of the importance of the people involved in this march of history. People, their attitudes and experiences form the glue bridging the jump from old to new technologies. He found this to be true especially in Egypt and describes the pitfalls, humor, and successes of the American, and Egyptian engineers on a project of fundamental importance to that country. He received a BS, and MS in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, and earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1970. As adjunct Professor at Northeastern University, he taught fiber optics technology and systems design in the mid ‘70’s. He is retired, and resides with his wife Cynthia in Holland, Michigan, They have a son, daughter, and two granddaughters.

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