KABUL, May 12 (AFP) - Suspected Taliban militants attacked a transmission tower belonging to Afghanistan's main mobile phone company in a pre-dawn attack Thursday, the provincial governor said.

The rebels attacked the Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) office in the Zarghon Shaher district of Logar province, some 70 kilometers (44 miles) southeast of Kabul, provincial governor Mohammed Aman Hamim said.

"At 2:00 a.m (2130 GMT Wednesday) the enemies attacked the AWCC antenna tower in Zarghon Shaher and they set fire to some equipment and the generator of the company," Hamim told AFP.

Police rushed to the spot but the attackers fled the area, he said.

There were no casualties in the incident.

AWCC is one of the two cellular phone companies set up in Afghanistan to provide communication facilities in the war-ravaged country which lacks an efficient nationwide landline telephone system.

Both government and private sectors heavily rely on mobile phones for communications in the country.

Afghanistan is facing a surge in attacks by remnants of Taliban, whose hardline fundamentalist regime was ousted by a US-led military offensive in late 2001 for refusing to hand over Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden