NEW DELHI, India-Five companies and groups have submitted bids for supply of infrastructure for the proposed GSM network of the state-owned company ACT Mobile in Thailand.
Those in the fray are Nokia, Lucent Technologies, IEC/Nortel Networks, Alcatel, and a consortium of Siemens, Ericsson and Mitsubishi. ACT Mobile has set up a nine-member panel to screen the technical and financial proposals from the five bidders.
ACT Mobile Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Somkuan Bruminhent stated in Thailand the panel would make its recommendations in about two weeks. The contracts are said to be worth up to 4.2 billion baht (US$95.3 million). He said all five groups that submitted business plans had proposed GSM wireless technology for the 1900 MHz system.
