BEIJING -- Fifth ITU Telecom Exhibition Asia 2000 kicked off in Hong Kong this week. Iranian Telecommunication Company along with 12 state-owned and private telecom enterprises are also participating in the event .

Nasrollah jahangard, former acting minister of post, telegragh and telephone, will deliver a speech at a forum on the sideline of the exhibition today. Iranian exhibitors are displaying different kinds of antenna, optical cable, large and small capacity telephone centers, different types of telecom towers and other products, in an exhibition area of 120 square meters.

Ahmad Sherafat director of electronic engineering department of Tarbiat-e Modarres University presented his paper on Tuesday at a forum on the sideline which is titled ways to enter Asian market.

In his presentation he discussed core network evolution. Asia 2000 is 23th telecom event in the world since 1971, when the first such event was held in Geneva. Asia 2000 telecom exhibition will end on Thursday, December 7.

Asia's first telecom exhibition was held in 1985 with 11 thousand visitors, 108 telecom company in an area of 1,580 square meter and 700 forum participants.

In 1997, 476 telecom company participated in the exhibition of an area of 18 thousand meters and was visited by 40 thousand of people in Singapore.

(IRNA)