Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:
Andrew
China: With the Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan high-speed railway to provide a coverage and system for essential wireless communications in the Shanxi province for the new 900 kilometer line that links East and West China.
Value: Undisclosed
DragonWave
U.S. Virgin Islands: With Choice Communications L.L.C. to provide high-capacity next-generation backhaul for its converged mobile services network.
Value: Undisclosed
Ericsson
Denmark: With TDC to provide 4G/LTE equipment for a network upgrade, including radio access and core network equipment.
Value: Undisclosed
Japan: With Softbank Mobile to upgrade its HSPA radio access network with Ericsson’s RBS 6000 radio base station solution.
Value: Undisclosed
Ceragon
Mozambique: With Mobile Cellular for a turnkey microwave solution, including radio planning for a backbone network. The microwave network will connect the central part of Mozambique to the southern part of the country.
Value: Undisclosed
Alvarion
United States: With KeyOn Communications to supply BreezeMAX WiMAX wireless equipment for its statewide network in Nevada.
Value: $3 million
Alcatel-Lucent
China: With China Mobile (for GSM and TD-SCDMA networking solutions, transmission equipment, IP routers and IP Multimedia Subsystem platforms); China Telecom (for CDMA networking solutions and other network elements); and China Unicom (for W-CDMA and GSM solutions).
Value: Approximately $1.6 billion
United States: With Verizon Wireless to provide network architecture and services to support the carrier’s ongoing 3G network expansion and 4G/LTE buildout for a period of four years.
Value: $4 billion
Huawei
Bangladesh: With Grameenphone Ltd. to expand and enhance the carrier’s next-generation SingleRAN network under a three-year agreement. Huawei will provide its SingleRAN solution and 4G base stations across the country.
Value: Undisclosed
Nokia Siemens Networks
Afghanistan: With Afghan Wireless Communication Company to increase coverage, especially in rural areas, by modernizing and expanding the carrier’s GSM/GPRS 2.5G network and to provide subscriber data management, and charging and billing platforms.
Value: Undisclosed
