Mobile vendor orders - 26/8/05

Siemens will provide Maxis (Malaysia) with 450 additional 3G base stations by the end of this year.

Alcatel is supplying HSDPA to tele.ring (Austria) and introduction is planned for 2H05. Its ASB arm in China won a $123m contract with Thailand-based T.A Orange.

Marconi supplies Orascom with network planning solution Planet EV software and mobile consultancy services.

Tekelec IAS is providing DTAC (Thailand) with GPRS solutions and network roaming management.

Nortel has been selected by Poland's PTK Centertel as a key supplier of 3G radio equipment.

Motorola provides softswitches to KDDI (Japan) for CDMA upgrades.

Lucent won a new contract with VIVO (Brazil) to expand the coverage of its 3G CDMA2000 1xEV-DO network in the main cities.

Nokia received an order from DTAC (Thailand) for 3G network switch.