WP: MCI Chosen to Build Mobile Network in Baghdad

MCI was awarded a contract by the US Department of Defense to build a small GSM network in Baghdad for serving humanitarian aid workers and key Iraqi government officials, according to The Washington Post. Neither the value of the contract not the completion date were mentioned, but an initial installation is expected to be operational in June. A report earlier this month from The Washington Post indicated that the U.S. Agency for International Development, a division of the State Department, had decided not to issue a much larger contract for rebuilding Iraq's telecommunications infrastructure because "telecommunications was not part of its portfolio." Previously, there had been speculation that either Lucent or Motorola would be chosen to build a mobile network in Iraq.
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