The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.
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Cellular
- Bangladesh: Nokia Corp. said it won a contract with Warid Telecom in Bangladesh to provide a radio network for the company’s greenfield operations in the Dhaka administrative district.
- Channel Islands: Cable & Wireless selected Nokia to provide GSM and W-CDMA radio and core network equipment on the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. The agreement is part of a frame agreement between the companies announced earlier this year.
- Czech Republic: Vodafone Czech Republic awarded three companies contracts for network equipment. The company signed a contract with Siemens to build a significant part of the carrier’s 3G radio access network. The frame contract runs for three years and covers W-CDMA equipment, including base stations and controllers as well as infrastructure for power supply and antennas. The carrier also awarded a contract to Huawei for construction of a UMTS network, including a UTRAN system based on Node B technologies. Finally, L.M. Ericsson said it received an order from the carrier to build a 3G transmission and core network, including its mobile softswitch solution.
- Denmark: Nokia said it has been chosen by Sonofon to supply W-CDMA network equipment for the carrier in Denmark. The contract follows on a new frame agreement signed by Nokia and Telenor Nordic that covers Telenor’s affiliates Telenor Mobile and Sonofon.
- Finland: Finnish telecom operator Elisa launched a commercial HSDPA network using equipment provided by Nokia Nokia supplied the equipment to Elisa under a frame agreement announced in June 2005.
- Thailand: Nokia and Advanced Info Service Plc signed a deal, valued at $19 million, that calls for Nokia to expand AIS’ GSM network in the northern, central and southern regions of Thailand. The contract includes a GSM radio network, including base stations and base station controllers, a core network and other equipment.
- Ukraine: Ericsson won an order from Ukrainian RadioSystems for its Mobile Softswitch solution for the carrier’s nationwide GSM network.
Wi-Fi
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- United States: ADC said MetroFi Inc. is deploying its SG-1 Service Gateway in its Wi-Fi network that provides service in Cupertino, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, Calif.
- Israel: Nortel Networks received approval from the Israeli government to trial its wireless mesh technology in the town of Ariel in the West Bank.
- United States: The city of San Francisco selected EarthLink and Google to build a municipal wireless network for the city.
WiMAX
- Germany: Nortel Networks and German regional power utility New Energie said they completed a WiMAX broadband service trial in the town of Erkelenz in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Miscellaneous
- Siberia: JSC Sibertelecom deployed an IMS-based next-generation network using equipment from Nortel Networks in the city of Novokuznetsk.
- Taiwan: Chunghwa Telecom said it plans to migrate its international circuit-switched infrastructure to a Nortel Networks Voice over Internet Protocol next-generation-network solution. Initial deployments will begin in Taipei, Kaoshiung and three overseas locations by the third quarter, said the companies.
- United States: The Wireless Selection Committee for the town of Brookline, Mass., selected MobilePro Corp. and Galaxy Internet Services to design, deploy and operate a multiradio, multichannel mesh network for public-safety, government and commercial applications. The town’s board of selectmen must now approve the selection. And Leap Wireless International Inc. announced it will deploy Tekelec’s 9000 Distributed Switching Solution to support its Voice over Internet Protocol and data network as well as its Cricket service in 39 markets in 19 states.
