Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

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.

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• Cellular

• Austria: Hutchison 3G said it is using equipment supplied by Siemens Communications to further build its W-CDMA network, which currently covers about half the population of Austria.

   

• China: Nokia Corp. announced it won a GSM core network contract with Hunan Mobile Communication Co. Ltd. The agreement calls for Nokia to supply MSC Server mobile softswitch equipment in four cities in Hunan Province.

   

• Isle of Man: O2 subsidiary Manx Telecom has selected Lucent Technologies Inc. to provide IMS equipment for the carrier and increase its wireless network capacity.

  WiMAX

   

• Japan: Motorola Inc. said it reached an agreement with Softbank Group to deploy a WiMAX trial network in Tokyo.

   

• Russia: Aperto Networks said it shipped its PacketMAX products to Avalcom, a reseller and systems integrator in Russia. Aperto said Avalcom has lined up nearly a dozen carriers across Russia for pilot projects and trials during the next three months.