Telkom Indonesia has awarded a CDMA2000 network expansion contract to ZTE of China. Under the deal, the vendor will expand network coverage to four major cities in the eastern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia. No financial terms were disclosed. Telkom and ZTE previously partnered in August 2004 when the Chinese firm supplied optical fibre products for […]
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The Department of Telecom (DoT) and sector regulator Trai look set for a major showdown over management of spectrum, the radio frequencies on which mobile services operate. While this task is currently undertaken by DoT’s Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing (WPC), Trai is of the view that it should be entrusted with this task as
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Flag Telecom, the undersea cable arm of Reliance Communications (RCOM), has awarded Japan’s Fujitsu a $1.5-billion turnkey contract for construction of a next generation network (NGN) submarine cable. Others in the race for the mega contract were US-based Tyco Telecommunications, equipment vendor Alcatel and Japan-based NEC Corp. NGN implies a consolidation of several transport networks,
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