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

• Brazil: Lucent Technologies Inc. said it won a contract with Vivo to expand the carrier’s CDMA2000 1x and EV-DO network in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

   

• China: Nokia Corp. said it won a GSM network expansion deal with Sichuan Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom. The deal calls for Nokia to deploy its GSM radio and core networks in four cities in the Sichuan province. Also in China, Siemens AG said its communications unit won two second-generation GSM mobile equipment and services contracts valued at a combined $174.42 million. The larger deal is with China Mobile and the second deal is with China United Communications.

   

• United States: Radcom Ltd. said it will provide a CDMA2000 service monitoring system to Leap Wireless International Inc. to support its Cricket-branded wireless service.

Wi-Fi

• United States: Airport Infrastructure Management L.L.C. said it signed a 10-year agreement with the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., to install, operate and maintain a metropolitan wireless broadband Internet access system for the municipality as well as for parts of Luzerne County, Pa. In Florida, Strix Systems Inc. said it is deploying its Access/One outdoor wireless system for City Wi-Fi Networks Inc. in Dunedin. In Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University deployed Aruba Networks’ centralized wireless local area network technology across its Tulsa and Center for Health Sciences campuses.

WiMAX

• Chile: Alvarion Ltd. said Entel Chile plans to deploy a WiMAX network in 14 cities in the country using Alvarion’s BreezeMAX 3500 system.

   

• Pakistan: Motorola Inc. said it has been selected by Wateen Telecom, which is part of Warid Telecom International, to be the primary supplier of a nationwide broadband voice and data network. The company said it will provide its 802.16e-based MOTOwi4 WiMAX access network and subscriber units as part of the deployment.

   

• Taiwan: The Graduate Institute of Business Administration and Electrical Engineering departments of National Taiwan University are working together with Nortel Networks on a WiMAX broadband service trial that includes interoperability testing using a variety of wireless devices and multimedia applications.

Miscellaneous

• United States: Motorola Inc. said it won a contract from Xcel Energy that calls for it to design and install three wireless trunked radio networks in Minneapolis/St. Paul, western Texas and the Denver/Boulder area. Itron Inc. said it will provide more than 263,000 automatic meter reading modules for CenterPoint Energy in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market.