Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

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

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• Austria and Germany: T-Mobile Deutschland and T-Mobile Austria announced plans to buy equipment from Siemens Communications Group to expand their W-CDMA networks. The contract includes HSDPA technology. Buildout is expected to be finished this year.

   

   

   

• France: SFR said it selected Siemens AG to provide HSDPA equipment to upgrade the carrier’s existing W-CDMA network.

   

   

   

• Nigeria: Nigeria Telecommunication Ltd. signed a contract with Motorola Inc. for a CDMA network covering Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city. The contract is valued at $33 million.

   

   

   

• United Kingdom: Aircom International said it won a managed services contract from T-Mobile UK that includes rollout management, integration, performance management and continuous optimization of the carrier’s second-generation and third-generation network.

   

   

   

• United States: MTPCS L.L.C., which operates in Montana under the Chinook Wireless brand name, selected Nokia Corp. to build a GSM/GPRS/EDGE network throughout Montana to replace the carrier’s existing CDMA network.

   

Wi-Fi

• Canada: Siemens Communications said Toronto Hydro Telecom has selected it as the vendor of record for equipment, implementation and services to support its plans to create Toronto’s largest ubiquitous Wi-Fi zone in Canada.

   

   

   

• Korea: Boingo Wireless announced a roaming agreement with South Korean operator KT, which adds 14,000 hot spots to Boingo’s worldwide Wi-Fi network. Boingo said the deal marks its entry into the South Korean market and brings its network reach to 45,000 locations.

   

   

   

• Russia: Golden Telecom said it plans to use wireless mesh network technology from Nortel Networks to build a mesh network in Moscow consisting of 5,000 Wi-Fi access points.

   

Miscellaneous

• Caribbean: Digicel Group said it implement Roamware’s roaming solutions to offer seamless services for customers traveling in the Caribbean.

   

   

   

• Finland: Digita and Nokia signed a commercial DVB-H mobile TV platform supply contract that calls for Nokia to provide the carrier with its Nokia Broadcast Solution 3.0.

   

   

   

• Russia: Andrew Corp. said it completed the first phase of a major communications network covering seven of 12 lines in the Moscow Metro transportation system. The Moscow Metro Unified Radio Network is based on TETRA technology. Also in Russia, Cellvine Ltd. said it installed its advanced coverage enhancement solution for CDMA450 carrier Skylink in Moscow.

   

   

   

• United States: Alcatel said it has equipped Virginia’s Hampton Roads Planning District Commission with a new digital network solution designed to enhance interoperability among chief administrative officers and public-safety first responders, including the local police and fire departments and the U.S. Coast Guard. Also in the United States, Alvarion and IBM announced a partnership to offer and deliver wireless systems to municipalities and their public-safety agencies.