VENEZUELA
Nokia Corp. was awarded a multi-year contract valued at up to $105 million to supply a turnkey 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network to Corporacion Digitel C.A. in Venezuela. Nokia said it will provide mobile switching centers, home location registers, base station systems and its network management system, as well as installation, implementation and maintenance services. Delivery of the equipment is scheduled to begin immediately.
Innova Corp. said it received purchase orders for $2.1 million of its XP4 digital wireless radios and accessories from Simtel of Caracas, Venezuela. Innova plans to begin shipping the point-to-point products during the first quarter.
PERU
LHS Group Inc. said it licensed Communicaciones Nextel del Peru S.A. to use its Business Support and Control System billing product, and it plans to provide the Latin American operator with implementation and other related services. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The system initially will support a subscriber base of 40,000 using Nextel International’s integrated Digital Enhanced Network from Motorola Inc. The billing system is scheduled for commercial launch near the end of 1998 with the first production billing in January, LHS said.
AUSTRALIA
King Communications International Ltd. said Allied Express, one of Australia’s largest couriers, expanded an order made three weeks ago by $180,000. Allied Express will install King’s KDT5000 mobile data terminals in its Melbourne operations in the first stage of a national implementation. Allied will use the terminals in its entire Australia fleet of 1,000 vehicles. The company’s original order was for $250,000 for a new total of $430,000.
MYANMAR
Effective immediately, L.M. Ericsson has suspended all its business ties with Burma “in light of concerns expressed in the United States, which potentially could damage the company,” Ericsson stated. U.S. activists have threatened a consumer boycott of Burma to protest human rights abuses by the government there. Ericsson described its level of business in the southeastern Asian country now called Myanmar as “negligible.”
