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India’s BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.) awarded a GSM expansion 
contract valued at over US$100 million to Nortel. BSNL, which currently serves 20 million cellular subscribers, is actively growing its network reach and capacity to meet increased demand for mobile telephony services across the country. This project focuses on southern areas of the country. Deployment is underway and completion is expected in 2008.http://www.nortel.com
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about GSM. Here is what it replaced:
ERMES served 1990–2000. What ultimately replaced it?
ERMES a pan-European paging standard meant to unify the continent's fragmented national pager networks with roaming. Its job passed to GSM — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
