Alcatel-Lucent Wins US CDMA Contract

Alcatel-Lucent says that it has been awarded a five-year agreement worth up to US$126 million by the USA based CDMA operator, Cricket - the consumer brand name of Leap Wireless. Under terms of the agreement, the new market expansion includes the deployment of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A (Rev. A).

"We are very excited to further expand our Cricket wireless services across many more markets," said Glenn Umetsu, executive vice-president, engineering and technical operations at Leap. "Alcatel-Lucent has been and remains an integral part of our network as we continue to build out and expand our business. Alcatel-Lucent's solutions are in sync with our business objective of providing our customers with high-quality, high-value mobile services while maintaining our low-cost leadership."

Alcatel-Lucent also will provide its CDMA2000 1X equipment as part of this deal so that Cricket can continue to provide circuit-switched mobile voice services. Alcatel-Lucent services will provide installation, engineering, training and technical support."

Posted to the site on 28th June 2007