Nokia to Supply GSM Network to State of Andhra Pradesh, India

Business Wire, June 19, 1996

HELSINKI, Finland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1996--Tata Communications of India and Nokia Telecommunications, the infrastructure arm of Finland-based Nokia Group, have signed an agreement for the supply of a GSM network to the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. The contract is valued at close to USD 25 million.

Nokia will deliver a complete state-of-the-art GSM network including Nokia DX 200 mobile switching centers, base stations and base stations controllers, access transmission equipment including Nokia short-haul microwave radios, a network management centre, as well as implementation, network planning, technical support services and network planning tools.

Tata Communications will offer cellular service throughout the state of Andhra Pradesh, which has some 67 million inhabitants. It also plans to launch its cellular network in the city of Hyderabad in September and extend services to all main cities over the next 6 months.

Tata Communications is a joint venture company owned by Tata Industries Ltd., Bell Canada International Inc. and their associates, and AIG Capital Partners. Tata Industries is the principal project promoting and investment company of the USD 8 billion Tata Group.

Nokia is a Finland-based telecommunications group with 1995 net sales of USD 8.4 billion and about 32,000 employees worldwide. Nokia is a world leader in digital GSM/DCS cellular networks, and to date Nokia's GSM/DCS technology has been supplied or ordered by 46 operators in 29 countries.

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