Alcatel-Lucent bags $150 mn 5-year deal from Unitech

France-based telecommunication firm Alcatel-Lucent today said it has bagged a five-year contract of about $150 million from Unitech Wireless, a telecom venture of real estate major Unitech, to support the launch of the company’s GSM mobile services.

According to the five-year contract, worth $150 million, Alcatel Lucent would deploy GSM/EDGE networks for Unitech in the Kerala and Orissa circles, a company spokesperson told PTI.

Unitech Wireless, in which Norwegian telecom group Telenor has a majority stake, has licences to operate in all 22 circles in India. However, the company is yet to launch its services.

Alcatel-Lucent will build Unitech Wireless' network and provide operations management under a comprehensive management services contract.

The company will offer project management, network design, integration, testing, installation, multi-vendor radio network planning and optimisation and network management.

Earlier, Unitech had given the Indian arm of Chinese telecom network equipment major Huawei Technologies a contract worth about $400 million to deploy the end-to-end telecom network in three circles in southern India -- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.