December 16, 1996 5:01 PM ET

Lucent wins $400M PCS contract from General Wireless
By Margaret Kane

Lucent Technologies Inc. announced today it has received a five-year, $400 million contract to supply infrastructure equipment and build a personal communications services network for General Wireless Inc. General Wireless, of Dallas, said the contract includes $300 million in financing from Lucent to cover the initial cost of construction and equipment needed to increase network capacity. Lucent, based in Warren, N.J., will engineer and build Code Division Multiple Access PCS networks in General Wireless' Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco and Sacramento, Calif., markets. The networks will be built with Lucent minicell equipment, 5ESS(R)-2000 switches, transmission equipment and power systems. Copyright(c) 1996 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company is prohibited. PC Week and the PC Week logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. PC Week Online and the PC Week Online logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Send mail to PC Week