5.2.8 Iran Communication Industries

 

Table 5.6: Contact Information for ICI.

P.O. Box 15875-4337	Tel: +98 21 254-8080
Tehran, Iran	Fax: +98 21 254-8076, 254-1194
	Telex: 214417 ICIT IR

Iran Communications Industries was established in 1978 to produce SMD circuits and digital PABX centers. It employs over 2000 skilled personnel (12% of whom are engineers). This fully state-owned company works in claims to rely fully on research and development carried out at the ITRC. ICI has been awarded 6 awards at the annual Kharazami Science Competition and has been granted international and local patents for its technological innovations.

ICI consists of the following divisions:

1.

Tactical Communication Division

2.

Communication Security Division

3.

Telecommunication Division

4.

Mechanical Parts Division

5.

Electronic Component Division

It's Telecommunication Division and produces the following products:

• Digital PABX centers with CCITT standard, with a capacity range from 120-5,000 lines;
  
• Electronic invoicing machines, or ANI's, that have been installed in more than 200 telecommunications centers;
  
• Digital transmitting equipment, PCM-4, PCM-8 and PCM-30.

Consumer products in the telecommunications field include:

• SAMA-68 - a multi-featured, microcomputer controlled and programmable phone patch system that can connect a public or private telephone system to a simplex radio network.
  

• SAMA-110 - a full-featured base/repeater station radio with 99 synthesized channels, duplex and remote control operation, and 136- 520 MHz (8 bands) frequency range.
  

• SAMA-1209 and SAMA-1109 microprocessor controlled chargers.
  

• An emergency roadside telephone system consisting of emergency roadside telephone installed in pairs along the highway, the ERTs are and all connected to a Call Control Unit by a dedicated 4-wire (quad) link.
  

• RC-620, RC-715, RC-720, and RC-730 GSM mobile phones with up to 100-number phone book, 256 memory dials in SIM, calculator, and PCMCIA card for data/fax.
  

• SAMA-105, 106, 107 and 208 VHF/UHF mobile radios and the Payam mobile transciever.
  

• SAMA-PA-26 alphanumeric Pager and SAMA-PN-4 numeric pager.
  

• Card accessed outdoor payphone, with remote monitoring, software updates, synthesized voice (5 languages) emergency calls (5 numbers) securing the payment of calls line tapping protection card checks and socket connection (for fax and portable computers.) and multi-card reader.
  

• SAMA-109, SAMA-IS-250, SAMA-209, 309, and 971 VHF/UHF portable radio (walkie-talkie) and Portable Radio Trunking, with optional secure operation and military standards.
  

ICI enjoys state-of-the-art facilities, and with 25 years of experience, it is also the country's leading manufacturer of military communication equipment and systems. More than 75 products in the field of tactical communication and encryption systems meet a wide range of the army's requirements, while a forceful R&D center with 20 production lines boosts the industry with ``custom-made" projects as well as a stream of new products.

ICI enjoys use of a number of well-equipped R&D facilities including CAD-CAM laboratories, SMD assembling facilities, advanced QA facilities, and MIL-STD and advanced military QC test laboratories.

Examples of other projects that have been supervised by ICI are execution of various large-scale communication projects, multilayer PCB design and production, microcontroller development, fire alarm systems, and electronic proximity and delay fuses.