NUREMBERG, Germany-Lucent Technologies Inc. has received a contract from Deutsche Telekom Mobilnet GmbH to provide the German phone operator with base stations for one of the largest nationwide German mobile networks.
The deal is valued at more than $20 million. Deutsche Telekom’s wireless arm, DeTeMobil, launched a Global System for Mobile communications network in 1992, for which Lucent already has installed more than 2,500 base stations.
Lucent now manufactures GSM infrastructure equipment at a factory in Nuremberg, which Lucent acquired earlier this year through its purchase of the communications system division of Philips Electronics. The factory was formerly under Philips Kommunikations Industrie of Nuremberg.
Lucent bought the Philips factory to more easily move into the fast-growing German wireless market.
With the Lucent equipment, DeTeMobil will expand its coverage area. The operator has about 1 million subscribers. It operates as D1.
“I see the contract,” said Detlef Linssen, Lucent managing director in Nuremberg, “as proof of a major domestic customer’s confidence in Lucent Technologies’ capability and expertise, even though our new name is not widely known in the German market.”
DeTeMobil is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG.
