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MOTOROLA CIG WINS HUNAN GSM CONTRACTS

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded two contracts, valued at about $105 million, by China’s Hunan Posts and Telecommunications to expand Global System for Mobile communications networks in the Hunan Province.

Under one contract, Motorola CIG will deploy additional M-Cell base stations, controllers and switching equipment for a provincewide GSM 900 expansion that will bring network capacity to 900,000 subscribers, said the company.

Under the other contract, Motorola CIG said it will deploy M-Cell base stations to expand Hunan’s GSM 900 dual-band network to four new cities in Hunan and provide capacity for 27,000 subscribers.

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