Thales wins $180m wireless order

Thales wins $180m wireless order

KUALA LUMPUR: French defense company Thales said it has won orders valued at US$180 million from Malaysia's AtlasONE telecommunications operator to provide equipment and services for a national wireless broadband network.

AtlasONE would use the network to offer Internet protocol (IP) services to both large and small businesses.

"Consumers and enterprise customers can benefit from the availability, dependability and affordability of our wireless broadband service," Mohammad Badry Hanafi, chairman of AtlasONE, said in a joint-statement over the weekend.

AtlasONE and Thales signed two agreements last week for the latter to provide equipment and services for a national deployment of wireless broadband services.

Under the agreements, Thales would be responsible for all facets of system integration, program management and broadband technology solution selection for AtlasONE's transmission network, it said. -- AFP