Iran Telephone Planning and Development Company is active in building different concrete structures such as manholes, concrete poles, and metallic structures such as guyed towers, telephone booths, cross-connect cabinets and Main Distribution Frames (MDF). The company also produces telecommunications towers, is heavily involved in executing cabling projects, and is active in implementing cable networks. In 1996 the company won the tender to implement the 700-km long TAE fiber-optic cable project in Turkmenistan.