Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion, ZyXel 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
–Uganda: Hits Telecom Uganda signed Alcatel-Lucent to a $100 million contract to deploy a GSM network.
WiMAX
–China: Nokia Siemens Networks signed a contract with Yunnan CTC, a branch of China Telecom, to supply Carrier Ethernet switches to allow the carrier to enhance and optimize its network.
–Costa Rica: Alvarion Ltd. said RACSA selected its 4Motion solution to provide extended wireless access services to business and residential customers in several major cities in the country.
–Germany: Alcatel-Lucent said it is deploying a commercial universal WiMAX network based on the 802.16e-2005 standard in the Saar region for VSE NET, a regional telecom provider in Saarbrucken.
–South Pacific: RBID.Com Inc. said its RBID Technologies subsidiary and the Institute for Information Industry Taiwan have partnered to roll out a wireless broadband network in several developing countries in the South Pacific.
–United States: Sprint Nextel Corp. has chosen ZyXEL Communications to provide WiMAX customer premises equipment for its planned WiMAX rollout.
Miscellaneous
–Hong Kong: Andrew Corp. said it won a contract to upgrade the Mass Transit Railway Corp.’s territory-wide radio network in Hong Kong, including modifying MTRC’s communications infrastructure in tunnels, stations and other buildings to enable the migration of the railway’s radio system from a conventional 80 MHz trunk radio system to an 800 MHz TETRA system.