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Ericsson is providing Maxis, Malaysia, with managed services for its 3G network. It won a $13m contract from Mascom, Botswana, for network expansion and MMS services. It will provide its Internet Payment eXchange (IPX) solution for content payment to Modern Times Group.

Siemens is supplying T-Mobil Austria with an HSDPA infrastructure and laptop data cards. Medi Telecom (Morocco) has ordered Siemens a second GPRS platform.

Alcatel is providing China Unicom in the province of Tianjin, with its WAP 2.0 Gateway solution. It is the fifth WAP 2 deployment in China Unicom network by Alcatel. Alcatel will expand Vala900 (Kosovo) GSM network to over 700,000 users under a €24m contract covering also GPRS upgrade, MMS, and WAP2.

ZTE received three contracts from Bangladesh: from WorldTel for a national network infrastructure to include CDMA, PSTN, Power and micro transmission products, from GEP with a network infrastructure, and from JTL with 100,000 CDMA fixed wireless phones.

Nortel will expand HaiTel (Haiti) mobile network with 3G technology, the first in the country.

Nokia has received an order from Telkomsel (Indonesia) to expand its packet core network.

Novatel is supplying its UMTS 3G PC Cards Merlin U630 to Vodafone Spain.

Huawei won a $200m deal with Nigeria's Ministry of Communications to deploy a CDMA 450 network across the country (funding is coming from the China Development Bank).