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
- China: Nokia Corp. said it signed a GSM expansion contract with Jiangxi Mobile Communications as well as a contract to supply a GSM network in rural areas covered by Jiangxi. Nokia also announced a deal with China Mobile to provide GSM/GPRS network equipment. That deal is valued at $736 million.
- France: Nokia and SFR signed an agreement calling for Nokia to provide its mobile softswitch solution to enhance the carrier’s network coverage and capacity.
- Latvia: Latvijas Mobilais Telefons launched an HSDPA network in the country using equipment provided by Nokia.
- United States: Verizon Wireless and Motorola Inc. extended their supply agreement to include upgrades to existing 1x EV-DO Revision 0 sites and incremental upgrades to CDMA 1xRTT sites to 1x EV-DO Rev. A.
Miscellaneous
- Egypt: WFI said it won a contract to provide network engineering and consulting services for Mobinil.
- Pakistan: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said it has been chosen by Worldcall Group to deploy a CDMA wireless local loop network in Karachi and Hyderabad.
- Vietnam: Nokia said it has partnered with Vietnam Multimedia Corp. to launch a commercial mobile broadcast TV service based on DVB-H technology in two cities by the end of this year.
