Nortel bags railways contract

Nortel Networks had bagged a multi-million dollar contract for providing
telecom equipment to Indian Railways, the Canadian telecom equipment maker
informed recently.

A Nortel statement, which did not reveal the value of the contract, said that
the contract for signaling and telecom equipment was awarded to a consortium
comprising Ansaldo, its Asia-Pacific subsidiary Union Switch Signal, MR Trading
and Leighton Asia. Leighton had contracted Nortel for GSM-R network.

The Nortel GSM-R wireless railway communications technology network will be
used along the 751km, 90-station line in Uttar Pradesh, the statement added.

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