Nortel Wireless Network to Help Improve Safety and Efficiency for Indian Railways

Mumbai, India (ots/PRNewswire) -

- GSM-R Network Contract Largest in India to Date

MUMBAI, India, September 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Indian Railways will use wireless railway communications
technology from Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) to help improve the safety
and efficiency on one of the most important and busiest rail
arteries in India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.

The Nortel GSM-R network will provide highly sophisticated
wireless communications along the 751-km, 90-station line connecting
the major Uttar Pradesh industrial and business centers of Ghaziabad
and Mugalsarai. The wireless system will be used to connect train
conductors, on-board crew, train dispatchers, station personnel and
other operations groups, such as those responsible for attaching and
separating rail cars at station yards.

This Uttar Pradesh signaling and communications contract is the
largest of its type awarded by Indian Railways to date as part of
the modernization of its national railway infrastructure. The
contract was secured by a regional consortium consisting of Ansaldo
Signal, its Asia Pacific subsidiary Union Switch & Signal, MR
Trading and Leighton Asia (Southern) Limited. Nortel was selected by
Leighton to provide the GSM-R network. This is Nortel's second such
contract in India. Nortel was previously chosen as sole provider of
a GSM-R solution to Eastern Railway of West Bengal.

"Nortel has established a global leadership position in GSM-R, and
a strong position in the Indian telecommunications marketplace, and
these were significant factors in our selecting Nortel's GSM-R
technology for this important Indian Railways contract," said David
Savage, managing director, Leighton Asia (Southern) Limited.

"Our industry-leading GSM-R solution will help Indian Railways
improve safety along this strategic rail line as well as contribute
to enhancing train operational efficiency," said Graham Richardson,
vice president and general manager, GSM, Nortel. "Nortel is
committed to providing railway operators around the world with
carrier-grade mobile communications networks and innovative
solutions that boost railway efficiency, both in transporting
passengers and in carrying freight."

"This is a significant win for Nortel and demonstrates our
continued commitment to India," said Malur Narayan, vice president,
Carrier Networks, India, Nortel. "As India's fourth largest state,
Uttar Pradesh is home to 16.4 percent of our 1.03 billion people,
and the Ghaziabad-Mugalsarai rail link plays a vital role in the
state's social and economic prosperity and wellbeing.

Nortel is a world leader in GSM-R technology and has been selected
to deploy GSM-R networks in three continents and ten countries. In
Asia, Nortel GSM-R customers include Eastern Railway in India and
China's Ministry of Railways, with GSM-R switching centers along
passenger lines spanning 20 of China's 31 provinces. Nortel was also
chosen for national deployments by the three largest railway
operations in Europe - RFF in France, Network Rail in Great Britain
and Deutsche Bahn in Germany. Recently, the Nortel solution was also
selected for the initial phase of Africa's first GSM-R project by
Algerian Railways operator SNTF.

Nortel has been a pioneer in the GSM-R standards process since
1992, and works with Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer (UIC)
and the Europe Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) on
standards improvements. Nortel supplied equipment for the initial
Mobile Radio for Railways Networks in Europe (MORANE) trial and was
a major contributor to the European Integrated Railway Radio
Enhanced Network (EIRENE) GSM-R standard.

MUMBAI, India, September 19 /PRNewswire/ --

About Nortel

MUMBAI, India, September 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications
capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power
global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical
information. Our next- generation technologies, for both service
providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support
multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate
today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying
networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does business
in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the
Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit
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