A leading British telecom company has donated four satellite communication equipments worth Rs140 million to the earthquake affected areas of Pakistan.

The VSAT satellite equipments are functioning in the quake- hit region, deployed by the British Telecom (BT) to facilitate communication links which collapsed during the disaster in 2005.

Each equipment was fully self sufficient with its own power generator and provides eight telephone-lines plus Internet access. This enables free calls to any worldwide destination, he added.

The secretary pointed out that initially services were provided as an arrangement through equipment satellite and the hub was located in the UK.