Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) is floating a tender for the world’s largest single procurement of GSM equipment, worth over $5 billion in the next two months.

It is inviting bids for procuring GSM equipment of a total capacity of 60m lines, 40% more than India’s existing GSM subscriber base. The value of the total order would be over Rs 20,000 crore. Siemens, Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel, Motorola, Huawei, Nortel and ZTE are the leading GSM suppliers.

US based Good Technology has acquired the key technology assets and engineering talents of Hyderabad based JP Mobile.

The acquisition will give Good Technology access to advanced server technologies that connects with a variety of back-ends, including IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, Novell GroupWise and IMAP, developed by JP Mobile.

With this acquisition, Good Technologies also gets access to key handheld data security technologies and key team members with significant experience building mobile solutions for enterprises.

“By integrating key components of JP Mobile’s server and security technologies with our GoodLink server, service, and client software, Good will be able to extend its mobile messaging and PIM system to all of the leading corporate messaging platforms, while simultaneously raising the bar for end-to-end integrated security on Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Palm OS platforms,