Alcatel-Lucent (Alcatel) announced on 15 July that it has been awarded a EUR32m contract by Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC) to provide GSM/EDGE network infrastructure for BTC's subsidiary Vivatel, which operates a mobile network.

The communications company will replace half of Vivatel's current GSM base station network equipment and provide project management, testing, installation and multi-vendor radio network planning and optimisation as part of the contract.

Alcatel will design, deploy and maintain equipment based on its latest base station controller (BSC Evolution) and its TWIN transceivers. The network infrastructure can be extended to support multiple standards such as GSM/GRPS/EDGE+ and 3G with a simple software upgrade.

Source:TELECOMWORLDWIRE