MetroPCS expands

MetroPCS has signed a deal for a build out of its network into new markets. Provider will be Alcatel-Lucent. —

MetroPCS Communications Inc. inked a three-and-a-half year contract extension with Alcatel-Lucent, which covers the buildout of the flat-rate carrier’s AWS spectrum holdings in seven major metropolitan areas. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed.

MetroPCS scored the new markets through the Federal Communications Commission’s advanced wireless services auction last year.

The contract will see Alcatel-Lucent’s CDMA infrastructure put to use in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Detroit, Dallas and Los Angeles. Alcatel-Lucent will provide MetroPCS with a range of base stations in new and existing markets, and will also provide maintenance and other services for network optimization, design and engineering.

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