Cingular Renews Multi-Billion Dollar Supply Contract
The USA's Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA) has renewed its contract with Cingular Wireless that provides state and local agencies in 50 states with the ability to purchase Cingular's voice and data services. The new, four-year agreement is expected to generate nearly US$2 billion in total revenue for the carrier. Cingular currently provides services to more than one million WSCA subscribers in various state, county and city agencies, and in public schools and institutions of higher learning across the country.
"This contract renewal ensures that over a million WSCA subscribers will continue to have access to Cingular's broad range of world-class wireless voice and data services for the next four years," said Chris Hill, vice president, government solutions, for Cingular Wireless. "These wireless services - enabled for the largest digital wireless voice and data networks in the nation - help government entities to keep their highly mobile workforces connected and serve the public more efficiently."
Cingular Wireless counts some 1,800 federal, state and local government agencies as customers, and provides wireless services to 95 of the Fortune 100 companies and more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500."
Posted to the site on 5th January 2007