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communications center is in Strausberg. The Ministry for National Defense (MINDEF) has its own radio-relay network and utilizes the towers of the SED network where convenient. Within the towers, however, the MINDEF has installed its own equipment. Since 1967, microwave radio-relay routes have been constructed between Air Defense Force Headquarters, Eggendorf, to Air Defense Division Headquarters at Cottbus and Neubrandenburg. The network utilizes RVC-934 24-channel equipment.

Radio Rugen operates a coastal transmitting station at Lohne and a receiving station at Glowe.

The German State Railways operates a special telecom system entirely independent of MPT facilities. Automatic switching facilities provide telephone and telegraph service. The system is divided into eight zonal directorates with headquarters in East Berlin, Cottbus, Dresden, Erfurt, Greifswald, Halle, Magdeburg, and Schwerin. The primary zonal exchange, at Markgrufenstrasse 24, East Berlin, is connected with each zonal directorate exchange. Zonal exchanges generally contain a MPT cable terminal, through which connections with the public telecom system can be made.

The telecom industry consists of 50 or more plants situated principally in the areas of Berlin, Dresden, and Leipzig. Telephone and telegraph equipment, components, cable and wire, television receivers, and radio equipment, including transmitters and radio-relay devices, are produced in quantities sufficient to fill all domestic needs and to allow for exports in significant volume. Tactical radio sets, principally of the "R" series, which are uniform throughout the Warsaw Pact countries, are obtained from other Communist countries, chiefly the Soviet Union.

Telecom equipment factories, universities, technical high schools, and telecom agencies maintain laboratories and institutes where research and development projects are conducted, primarily for producing specific items. State universities, technical high schools, apprentice training programs, and military schools train a sufficient number of telecom technical personnel.

Several development plans have been made, including the complete automation of domestic and international telephone systems. The TV system is being expanded by installing a UHF network.

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