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Saturday, Aug 27, 2005
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Announcements Logistics - Railways Siemens wins 2 GSM-R contracts from Railways Our Bureau
New Delhi , Aug. 26 INDIAN Railways has awarded two additional GSM-R (Global Systems for Mobile Communications-Railways) contracts to the Siemens Communications Group. With this, Siemens will equip 2,200 kilometres of the rail network with GSM-R technology. Both recent contracts are worth double-digit millions, said a company release. Train engineers, conductors and stationmasters in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir will be able to communicate with one another through a new mobile system, it said. GSM-R will support conference calls between multiple people, for example, and assure a stable connection, regardless of weather conditions. In addition, pressing a single key will enable the train engineer to automatically contact the control centre at the nearest station via his GSM-R mobile handset without having to dial its discrete number. In addition to installation and start-up, the contract also includes services, such as personnel training and system maintenance for the next three years. "Given the popularity of the GSM standard and the tremendous importance of rail traffic in this region, GSM-R technology offers enormous growth potential," said Mr Christoph Caselitz, President of the Mobile Networks Division at Siemens Communications, said.
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