Can you pls provide details of all UMTS wireless network contracts
awarded to Siemens so far?  I'm specifically looking for (a) which
network operators awarded contracts; (b) when; (c) size of each
contract (in dollars or euros) and duration (over which the network is
to be deployed); (d) estimated number of base stations.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 27 Sep 2003 18:58 PDT

I've found a site that tracks many of the type of details you are
seeking, and appears to contain hundreds of summaries of contracts
awarded to Siemens for GPRS, GSM, 3G, and other other wireless UMTS
technologies.

Each summary differs a bit as to its content, level of detail, and so
on.  A typical summary includes information such as:

--Siemens awarded a contract worth $67+ million

--contract is to supply and install a mobile radio system in a
national railway network

--Siemens will provide equipment to include phones, switchboards, base
stations, data transmission equipment, and related equipment and
services.

--The contract work will begin in 2003, and is expected to be
completed in 2006.


The reports available cover Siemens contracts all over the world,
including Europe, Russia, Asia, Africa, South America and elsewhere.

I cannot extract huge amounts of information from this site and
present it here due to copyright concerns.  But I can certainly steer
you to the motherlode of information itself so that you can make use
of the information that is available.

Let me know if I should post information about accessing the site as
an answer to your question.  If not, please let me and the other
researchers know how you would prefer to proceed on this.

Thanks.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by an1286-ga on 28 Sep 2003 06:52 PDT

Hello. Thanks for looking into this question.  I'm specifically
looking for Siemens contracts for UMTS networks which, by my
interpretation, primarily operate in 2.1GHz frequency band.  This
throws out all GSM and GPRS networks, and that would reduce the number
of such contracts/ summaries from the huge list that you found to
possibly less than 10. As an example, Siemens has a large contract for
2.1Ghz UMTS network from T-Mobile/Vodafone

Within each contract, my goal is to extract more specifics than
summaries such as those you found out provide: for example, I'm
interested in Siemens's share for the network ( comprised of base
stations, mobile switch centers, etc.) only, and not in mobile phones
or terminals.  Also, as I stated in my original questions, I'm
interested in an estimation of the number of base stations for each
contract.

In short, I'm looking for more specifics from a much smaller set of
contracts that the site such as the one you looked at has to offer.