TAIPEI, Taiwan-Northern Telecom Ltd. recently was awarded a contract valued at more than $40 million to provide equipment for the third expansion of Chunghwa Telecom’s 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications wireless network in the major regions of Taiwan.
Northern Telecom was awarded the initial contract for Chunghwa’s turnkey digital cellular system in 1994. The expansion includes the installation of additional base transceiver station radio equipment to the GSM network in order to bring its capacity to 1.5 million subscribers.
