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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Filed under Alcatel, Wireless by Dr. Dog
OneMax in concert with Alacatel-Lucent has implemented what is the first wide area deployment of 802.16. Not only that but they demonstrated transition capability of the service tower to tower.
“This achievement highlights the readiness of our network today, to offer a whole new range of compelling broadband services to residents of the Dominican Republic as well as visitors,” said Raoul Fontanez, Onemax’s CEO. “This collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent’s also is enabling us to give our customers and other distinguished guests a taste of some of the more advanced multimedia services that we will be able to introduce in the future.”
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Filed under 802.xx, Alcatel, Lucent, VoIP, Wimax by Dr. Dog
Third Pipe dark horse Sprint continues to award the larger market builds of its Wimax network non-incumbent telco equipment provider Samsung. This must be driving the Nortel / Alcatel / Lucent equipment Cabal crazy. The move is understandable since the cabal’s engineering operations are deeply embedded with their largest customers - AT&T and Verizon - and secrets are hard to keep among comrades. Then again a REAL mobile capable broadband pipe has the potential to permanently disrupt the dominance of AT&T and Verizon in mobile services.
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