BSNL invites $5bn bid for GSM equipment

Posted on | July 13, 2005 |

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.

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