Fixed orders - 25/05/06

NEC has signed a memorandum of intentions with Sistema (Russia) on personal identification, RFID and fixed-mobile convergence.

Motorola signed a significant WiMAX network contract with Pakistan's Wateen Telecom for a capacity of 1m users.

Intel has signed WiMAX contracts with two WiMAX ventures, Orascom Telecom WiMAX and Worldmax (Enertel, NL).

Lucent/ Juniper announced they have been selected by the U.K. Education and Research Networking Association (UKERNA) to supply routing equipment and services to UKERNA's JANET. Network.

Arris will be the coordinator of a EU-supported Framework for Partnership 6 (FP6) project-- CODMUCA (COre Subsytem for Delivery of Multiband Data in CATV Networks)- to accelerate the deployment of very high- speed broadband access over European Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) networks.

The Australian government is reviewing Telstra' s decision to award a €2bn contract to Alcatel.

Ericsson will provide an IMS solution to Elion (Estonia) for the launch of a new range of real-time multimedia services.