Mobile contracts - 28/08/07

NSN will receive a $810m preliminary order from BSNL (India) for 9m GSM lines.

HTC' s 3G handsets will be sold by Sprint Nextel in the US.

New Motorola Q handset with new music capabilities will be sold by Verizon Wireless.

Ericsson has signed a softswitch deal with SMARTS (Russia).

NSN, Nokia and Motorola would share a $1.8bn network expansion from Vodafone in India.

ALU signed a $100m contract with Uganda Telecom to build turnkey GSM network and managed services, as well as introducing UMTS in Uganda.

Thomson (France) will deliver a a trial, 5-channel mobile TV service across the greater Sydney area in Australia.

Andrew will deploy a TETRA network for the Mass Transit Railway territory-wide network in Hong Kong.

TD Tech and Datang/ALU won 50% each of China Telecom' s TD-SCDMA trial network in Baoding (China).