Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens, Alvarion and more

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.
Cellular
–China: Alcatel-Lucent‘s Chinese flagship company, Alcatel Shanghai Bell, and Datang Mobile are cooperating to expand China Netcom’s TD-SCDMA trial network in Qingdao.
–China: Nokia Siemens Networks signed a GSM network expansion contract with China Mobile Group Yunnan Co. Ltd. The deal is valued at about $95.4 million and covers both urban and rural areas of 11 cities of the Yunnan province.
–India: Bharti Airtel has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to expand its GSM and NGN networks and to expand its international calling card prepaid service. The memorandum of understanding is valued at $900 million.
WiMAX
–Australia: Alvarion Ltd. said Internet service provider Allegro plans to use its BreezeMAX system for a WiMAX deployment in the outer metro and growth corridors across Queensland.
–Russia: Alcatel-Lucent announced an agreement with Synterra to deploy a Universal WiMAX 802.16e network in the country.
Miscellaneous
–China: China Unicom has selected Alcatel-Lucent‘s IP routing solution as the foundation of its nationwide network transformation. The network deployment will include 65 cities in 13 provinces.