{"id":4123,"date":"2006-01-15T20:40:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T20:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/iraqi-telecom.html"},"modified":"2006-01-15T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T20:40:27","slug":"iraqi-telecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wireless\/iraqi-telecom.html","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Telecom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font size=\"2\">Apparently <country-region w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">Iraq<\/place><\/country-region> under Saddam had even less cell phones than weapons of mass destruction. Now the situation has reversed itself and the country is becoming a telecom power. Take a look at this <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/13\/AR2006011301747.html\"><font size=\"2\">article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> detailing the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some amazing facts:<\/font><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font size=\"2\">Under Saddam there were one million landlines for 26 million people<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font size=\"2\">There are now as many as 4.5million cell phone subscribers today<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Iraq under Saddam had even less cell phones than weapons of mass destruction. Now the situation has reversed itself and the country is becoming a telecom power. Take a look at this article detailing the situation. Here are some amazing facts: Under Saddam there were one million landlines for 26 million people There are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[768,769,770],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}