ZANJAN -- The Post, Telegraph and Telephone (PTT) Minister Ahmad Mo'tamedi said here on Saturday that 1,858 postal and telecommunication projects will be put into operation during the Government Week (Aug. 24-30).

Mo'tamedi added the projects had been implemented at a cost of Rls.1,168 billion.

He said 793,000 exchanges, 460 exchange centers, 85 cell phone stations, 956 rural telecommunication offices and 23 postal projects are scheduled to go on stream during the period.

The PTT minister announced the above statements in a ceremony held on the occasion of Government Week marking the martyrdom anniversary of former president Mohammad-Ali Rajaei and the then prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar martyred in 1980 in a terrorist bomb explosion.