BPL Mobile awards Motorola first GPRS contract in India

Mumbai India's BPL Mobile has awarded Motorola Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) a contract for the deployment of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) high-speed mobile data on the BPL Mobile GSM network. The commercial GPRS service is expected to be available in the near future, enabled by Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions Sector (GTSS) and strategic alliance partner Cisco Systems Inc. The value of the contract was not disclosed.

The always-connected high-speed mobile data service will deliver a wide range of Internet services to mobile devices, and it opens up the mobile market to many data applications, including e-commerce, e-mail, and data transfer. BPL Mobile will launch its GPRS service with Motorola's Timeport p7389i GPRS phones.

Motorola, through its alliance with Cisco, has end-to-end GPRS network solutions in commercial service. Both BT Cellnet in the UK and T-Mobil in Germany launched their GPRS services in June, and Telsim in Turkey and China United Telecommunications Corp. (China Unicom) launched their GPRS services this month.

Motorola has supplied BPL Mobile GSM system solutions since 1995.

Edited by Ellen Jensen
Managing Editor, Wireless Networks Online