Wednesday, November 14, 2007

NEC wins WiMAX base station contract from Tatung Telecom, says paper

Commercial Times, November 13; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 13 November 2007]

NEC has won a contract over rivals, including Motorola, Nortel Networks and Alcatel-Lucent, to supply and install a total of 197 WiMAX base stations in a deal worth NT$400 million (US$12.4 million) with Taiwan-based Tatung Telecom, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

Tatung Telecom, a WiMAX licensee for the southern region of Taiwan, will purchase an additional of 800 WiMAX base stations for NT$1.6 billion later on, the paper noted.

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