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Nortel in $100m Indian mobile win
Wednesday March 26th 2008. Posted: 09:38
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BSNL has chosen Nortel to support its southern GSM network expansion
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Nortel has won an agreement with India's Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) - valued at more than $100 million (£50m) - to put mobile connectivity into the hands of millions of new subscribers in the southern area of the country.
BSNL - India's largest telecoms service provider, with more than 20 million mobile subscribers - chose Nortel to support its southern global system for mobile (GSM) network expansion. Nortel India managing director Hitesh Lokhandwala said: "Since 2004, Nortel has worked closely with BSNL in rolling out mobile service to some seven million customers in the southern and eastern parts of India while ensuring the network is cost effective and implemented according to BSNL's aggressive timelines. "This new contract award reflects BSNL's confidence in Nortel to achieve these targets and is further proof that, in one of the most competitive, dynamic and fastest-growing markets in the world, Nortel's solutions meet our customers' requirements." Richard Lowe, president of carrier networks for Nortel, said: "Nortel offers an immediate solution for today's high-growth markets, and a clear migration path to fourth generation as operators across India eye the evolution of their networks to offer higher-bandwidth services in the near future." Nortel's deployment of the BSNL network expansion is already underway and is expected to be completed towards the end of 2008.
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