Alcatel wins China's order

Alcatel wins China's order

SINGAPORE (Reuter): French telecoms equipment group Alcatel Alsthom said yesterday it had won a US$58 million extension order in China to supply network infrastructure equipment.

Alcatel said in a statement that the extension order from Jiangsu PTA was through its joint venture Shanghai Bell Alcatel Mobile Communication.

Alcatel will provide mobile switching centers (MSC), base station controllers and several hundred base transceiver stations to increase the coverage and capacity of a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network put in use in 1996.

The extension order would bring the capacity of the network to 450,000 subscribers, it said.

With this new order, Alcatel supplies 50 percent of Jiangsu PTA's GSM network infrastructure, making Jiangsu PTA its biggest customer in China.

The deal was signed in May in Paris.

Alcatel was in Singapore to participate in the Asia Telecom 97 trade fair.