Siemens to develop Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa for euro 90m
German technology giant Siemens has won a euro 90 million bid for
development of the Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (PTC) network, the operator of
Era GSM. The service will include delivery and installation of new data
transmission systems as well as construction of new base stations. As a
result PTC will be able to add 2.5 million new customers to its current 3.1
million. Era's expanded services will include international phone calls,
Internet use through WAP protocol, and data transmission in the GPRS system.
Siemens is the third leading company among the world's providers of software
for mobile phones. It signed previous contracts with PTC in 1996 and 1999,
the latter worth approximately DM 160 million. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 5)
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