INDIA PRESS: ZTE, Motorola Out Of Race For BSNL Tender"

MUMBAI -(Dow Jones)- China's ZTE Corp. and the US's Motorola have been disqualified from bidding for Bharat Sanchar Nigam's (BSNL) INR200 billion tender for procuring and installing a GSM network, the Economic Times reported, quoting a company official.

"We found that there were major technical deviations from the tender specifications in the case of Motorola and ZTE. Therefore, they were eliminated," said R.L. Dube, planning director at the Indian telecommunications company, according to the report.

The remaining bidders are Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens the report added.

Newspaper Web Site: http://www.economictimes.com

-By Romit Guha; Dow Jones Newswires; 91-9900181471; djn.india@dowjones.com

-Edited by David Bottomley

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Posted to the site on 9th October 2006