TELECOMMUNICATION PLANNING AND MAINTENANCE FOR ELECTRICAL NETWORK IN UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENTS

Planning for the future communication requirements of an electrical network, depends on many factors like country development, inhabitants growth, economic strength and one of the most important factors is (peace), which is not normally mentioned since instability is a temporary condition. In the case of Iraq, its environment was unstable for more than 30 years. This paper considers the circumstances that forced planning and maintenance engineers to take additional factors into consideration during their work.