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Nokia gets a 400 million dollar contract with Bharti Airtel

By: , IntoMobile
Friday, November 24th, 2006 at 12:19 AM

Nokia has received a $400-million 3-year contract from Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Under the contract Nokia will expand Bharti’s managed GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks in 8 Airtel circles and deploy a wireless application protocol (WAP) solution across all its networks in India.

The contract will cover all towns and cities in 8 telecommunication circles of Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa, Gujarat, Bihar (including Jharkhand), Orissa, Kolkata, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh).

Nokia will carry out the network monitoring operations from its Global Network Services Centre in Chennai.

Source: TMC Net

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.