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 SMDcircuits and digital PABX centers. It employs over 2000 skilled personnel(12% of whom are engineers). This fully state-owned company works inclaims to rely fully on research and development carried out at the ITRC.ICI has been awarded 6 awards at the annual Kharazami Science Competitionand has been granted international and local patents for itstechnological 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 rangefrom 120-5,000 lines;
  
• Electronic invoicing machines, or ANI's, that have been installedin 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 andprogrammable phone patch system that can connect a public or privatetelephone system to a simplex radio network.
  

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

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

• An emergency roadside telephone system consisting of emergencyroadside telephone installed in pairs along the highway, the ERTs are andall 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 to100-number phone book, 256 memory dials in SIM, calculator, and PCMCIAcard for data/fax.
  

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

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

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

• SAMA-109, SAMA-IS-250, SAMA-209, 309, and 971 VHF/UHF portableradio (walkie-talkie) and Portable Radio Trunking, with optional secureoperation 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 communicationequipment and systems. More than 75 products in the field of tacticalcommunication and encryption systems meet a wide range of the army'srequirements, while a forceful R&D center with 20 production linesboosts the industry with ``custom-made" projects as well as a stream ofnew products.

ICI enjoys use of a number of well-equipped R&D facilities includingCAD-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 executionof various large-scale communication projects, multilayer PCB design andproduction, microcontroller development, fire alarm systems, andelectronic proximity and delay fuses.