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July 16, 2008  |  Email This Article   |  Print This Article

Comstar awards contract to Nortel

MOSCOW (WiMAX Day). Comstar-UTS announced today that it has selected Nortel to supply it with equipment for a mobile WiMAX network in Moscow. The company expects to deploy 160 base stations from Nortel by the end of 2008. The total investment in the project is expected to be USD 20 million. In a press release, Sergey Pridantsev, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comstar UTS, said: “The mobile WiMAX network, which will be added to other broadband internet access technologies, will allow us to provide a very broad range of telecommunications services to our subscribers in Moscow, whether at home, in the office or on the street. The offering, which comprises a wide spectrum of unique solutions, will increase our subscriber loyalty and strengthen our position in the Moscow broadband internet access market.”