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Mumbai , Oct. 7

BSNL has awarded Nokia a contract for the expansion of its GSM/EDGE and GPRS network in North India. The deal is valued at more than 200 million euros (Rs 1,120 crore).

Nokia will deploy four million lines across towns, cities, villages and all major State and national highways in Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Uttaranchal, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh (both east and west circles), Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan, said a Nokia release.

As a part of the agreement that can be extended further, Nokia will supply both core and GSM/EDGE and GPRS radio network equipment, including base station subsystems, switching subsystems, intelligent network, GPRS core network, short message service system, multimedia messaging centre expansion and Nokia Download Solution. Nokia 5140 handsets are also included in the deal.

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