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UNI New Delhi Oct 7: Nokia has bagged a 200 million-Euro (Rs 1,118 crore) contract from public sector telecom giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) for expanding its GSM/edge and GPRS network by four million lines in North India. Nokia will deploy the lines in 9 months across towns, villages as well as state and national highways in Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Uttaranchal, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh (both east and west), Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. As part of the agreement that can be extended further, Nokia will supply both core and GSM/edge and GPRS radio network equipment, including base stations, subsystems, switching subsystems, intelligent network, GPRS network, SMS system, mulitmedia messaging centre expansion and Nokia download solution besides handsets, Nokia said in a statement here. “BSNL’s vision is to be India’s largest cellular operator. The recent tender for network expansion is a testimony to our commitment to bring access to Indians anywhere, anytime across the country,” BSNL CMD Mr A K Sinha said. “This tender for a GSM turnkey cellular project is one of the largest and will be installed and rolled out in 9 months,” he added. BSNL is India’s top telecom company with over 42 million subscribers across the country. Nokia is the global leader in mobile communications and provides technology and products to around 20 markets in the Asia Pacific region.
