Alcatel-Lucent Wins Indian GSM-CDMA Contract

Alcatel-Lucent says that it has won a seven-year contract from India's Tata Teleservices to expand their CDMA /GSM network in 22 states pan India, covering close to 60 million subscribers. No financial details were provided though - or any indication of the scale of the contract.

"As a strategic technology partner of Tata Teleservices, Alcatel-Lucent has worked hard to meet our exacting standards as we strive to provide state-of-the-art services to our customers. We are confident that Alcatel-Lucent can help us deliver world-class solutions for our customers and helping us with the advantage in quick, efficient and flexible network" stated Mr. A. G. Rao, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Teleservices Limited."

"As Indian operators are beginning to engage in content aggregation and distribution, this new contract confirms our commitment to partner with our customers to help them leverage state-of-the-art networks that support their business goals and strategy," said Vivek Mohan, President of Alcatel-Lucent's activities in India. "The continued cooperation with Tata Teleservices is taking a new step forward to extend the reach of its offering to deliver Indian subscribers new services with the highest reliability."

Figures from the Mobile World subscriber tracker report that Tata Teleservices ended last year with just under 31.8 million customers - and a market share of 9.2%.

Posted to the site on 4th March 2009