Infrastructure awards wrap-up: Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Airspan 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
–Bulgaria: Bulgarian Telecommunications Co. chose Alcatel-Lucent to provide GSM/EDGE solutions to its Vivatel mobile subsidiary. Alcatel-Lucent will replace half of Vivatel’s current GSM base station subsystem network equipment and also provide a range of management, integration and testing services. The contract is valued at about $51 million.
–Germany: Nokia Siemens Networks won a contract to modernize and expand Telefonica O2 Germany’s mobile broadband network. In a separate agreement, O2 chose Nokia Siemens Networks to carry out implementation services at more than 200 radio access sites.
–Japan: Softbank Mobile awarded a contract to Ericsson to expand and upgrade its HSPA network to increase capacity and enable faster mobile broadband services.
WiMAX
–Jordan: Airspan Networks said Wi-Tribe Ltd. has signed a contract with the company for additional WiMAX equipment to expand its network across the country.
–Malta: Alvarion said it has been chosen by GO Mobile for a nationwide Mobile WiMAX network deployment in the 3.5 GHz frequency band.
Wi-Fi
–United States: The city of Lompoc, Calif., has moved its municipal Wi-Fi service to Aptilo Networks.
Miscellaneous
–Algeria: Nortel has been chosen to provide wireless communications with its GSM-R technology for two new railway lines in Algeria.
–United States: Alion Science and Technology won a $7 million contract to perform a wide range of radio frequency spectrum services at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The three-year contract was awarded by the Defense Technical Information Center through the modeling and Simulation Information Analysis Center.