Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Nokia Siemens Networks, Alvarion, BelAir 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
–Serbia: Telenor Srbija chose Nokia Siemens Networks to supply its 3G radio network based on W-CDMA technology.
WiMAX
–France: Alvarion Ltd. announced a frame agreement with Altitude, a nationwide operator in France, to provide its Mobile WiMAX 4Motion solution for a service operating in the 3.5 GHz band.
–Germany: Motorola Inc. said NeckarCom Telekommunikation launched a commercial VoIP service on a WiMAX network it provided in the Ulm region.
Miscellaneous
–China: Nokia Siemens Networks said it has been chosen to provide a GSM-Railway system for the Hefei-Wuhan passenger line operating in the eastern section of the Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu corridor.
–United States: BelAir Networks said it deployed a wireless broadband mesh network throughout the Sheraton Vistana Resort in Orlando, Fla. The network provides high-speed wireless access to the resort’s rooms and villas. Also in the United States, Trango Systems Inc. said it is supplying the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampsire with a high-speed fixed wireless point-to-point backhaul and point-to-multipoint broadband access equipment.