WiMAX industries

Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-upThe 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

China: Nokia Corp. said it signed a GSM expansion contract with Jiangxi
Mobile Communications as well as a contract to supply a GSM network in
rural areas covered by Jiangxi. Nokia also announced a deal with China
Mobile to provide GSM/GPRS network equipment. That deal is valued at
$736 million.

France: Nokia and SFR signed an agreement calling for Nokia to provide
its mobile softswitch solution to enhance the carrier's network
coverage and capacity.

Latvia: Latvijas Mobilais Telefons launched an HSDPA network in the
country using equipment provided by Nokia.

United States: Verizon Wireless and Motorola Inc. extended their supply
agreement to include upgrades to existing 1x EV-DO Revision 0 sites and
incremental upgrades to CDMA 1xRTT sites to 1x EV-DO Rev. A.

Egypt: WFI said it won a contract to provide network engineering and
consulting services for Mobinil.

Pakistan: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said it has been chosen by
Worldcall Group to deploy a CDMA wireless local loop network in Karachi
and Hyderabad.

Vietnam: Nokia said it has partnered with Vietnam Multimedia Corp. to
launch a commercial mobile broadcast TV service based on DVB-H
technology in two cities by the end of this year.

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