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

• Bangladesh: Motorola Inc. said it has been chosen by Warid Telecom International L.L.C. to deploy a new 2.5-generation GSM network in the country. Also in Bangladesh, L.M. Ericsson said it won a contract with Warid Telecom to supply its real-time charging solution to cover 61 districts.

   

• India: Nokia Corp. and Hutchison Essar extended their managed services contract in India. The contract calls for Nokia to supply GSM network equipment in 19 of Hutchison Essar’s 23 circles.

   

• Jamaica: ZTE USA won a contract with Oceanic Digital Jamaica to upgrade the carrier’s CDMA2000 network, including EV-DO and 1x voice and data equipment, base station subsystems and core network equipment.

   

• New Zealand: Lucent Technologies Inc. said Telecom New Zealand selected it to upgrade its existing CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network with Rev. A technology. The contract is valued at $10 million.

WiMAX

• Pakistan: Motorola said it signed a nationwide managed services contract with Wateen Telecom-Pakistan, a unit of Warid Telecom International, to manage a WiMAX network in the country.

Miscellaneous

• Hong Kong: InnerWireless Inc. said the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group plans to install the company’s in-building equipment at its flagship property in Hong Kong. The hotel company has already installed InnerWireless’ solution at hotels in New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in Hong Kong.

   

• Malaysia: Lucent Technologies and KUB-Fujitsu Telecommunications said they signed an agreement to jointly provide products and services to Telekom Malaysia Berhard to upgrade the carrier’s high-speed network. The contract is valued at more than $15 million.

   

• Spain: Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has been chosen by Telefonica of Spain to provide its VitalSuite Application Performance management software to monitor all of the carrier’s network traffic.