Budapest, November 4, 1999
MATÁV has won the tender invited by the Ministry of the Interior and therefore the company will be able to build the data transmission network between the Ministry's service centers and the Document Offices to be established at Mayors' offices. As of the beginning of next year, 152 Document Offices will be brought into operation across the country. MATÁV has been commissioned to set up the data transmission network and to provide services upon it. The company won the service rights through a closed public procurement procedure in which both Pantel and GTS also participated.
The contract for the provision of data transmission network services
was signed at the Ministry of the Interior on Thursday by József
Lajtár, economic deputy state secretary, György Eiselt, information
technology and telecommunications government commissioner and László
Győri, Head of Communications Technology Services at the National
Police Headquarters (ORFK), representing the Ministry of the Interior,
and Elek Straub, company Chairman and CEO, on behalf of MATÁV.
The 152 Document Offices will be brought into operation by December
1st, 1999, with test period set for completion by December 31st.
Budapest central Ministry of the Interior institutions will be
connected to one another by Matáv's Budapest optical network. The
connecting up of the county centers will be ensured by Matáv's
multi-purpose link network. The capacity of the network can be
continuously expanded in accordance with requirements. The technical
status of the data transmission network can be monitored not only by
service provider MATÁV, but also by the Communications Service of the
Ministry of the Interior through a network monitoring computer terminal
to be installed at the user's end.
MATÁV supplies the service to the Ministry of the Interior through its
nation-wide managed leased line network (FLEX-COM). More than 6,000
connections are already in operation on the FLEX-COM network. These
include those of national bank networks and government institutions.