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Bechtel Awarded Contract with Vodafone Australia.


FREDERICK, Md. -- Bechtel, through an operating unit operating unit

A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon
 Bechtel Telecommunications, has been awarded a contract to provide project management and network planning support to Vodafone in Australia as
  • Australia A may refer to:
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  • The Australia A rugby union team
 they begin to deploy enhanced 3G services for their customers. The deployment, in the Sydney and Melbourne markets The Melbourne Markets relates to the Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market operated by the Melbourne Market Authority.

The Melbourne Markets complex contains the:
  • Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market
  • National Flower Centre
  • Nursery Market
, is the first phase of the planned nationwide rollout for Vodafone, the largest mobile telecommunications operator in the world.

Under a consultancy agreement, Bechtel will support Vodafone with project management services including management of cost, schedule, and quality. The Bechtel team will implement and use its management tools to enhance the performance of multiple organizations involved in the deployment. Equally important, Bechtel will also support Vodafone's RF engineering efforts for network planning and optimization.

Bechtel, ranked as the top telecommunications contractor by Engineering News-Record Engineering News-Record (widely known as ENR) is a weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide. It has been published since 1874. It is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies.  in 2004, has also been providing Vodafone U.K. with design, procurement, and construction services to upgrade existing cell sites, build new sites, and install equipment to the cellular network infrastructure along 3,000 kilometers of rail lines throughout the UK.

ABOUT BECHTEL

Based in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Bechtel is one of the world's premier development, engineering, construction, and project management companies. Since 1898, Bechtel has worked on more than 20,000 projects in 140 countries on all seven continents. Bechtel Telecommunications, a unit of Bechtel Corporation, provides design, engineering, site acquisition, project management, and construction management for a full range of telecommunication systems, through major offices in London, Shanghai, and its world headquarters near Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.bechtel.com or www.bechteltelecoms.com or contact Marisa Busher via email at mmbusher@bechtel.com or call 301-228-6132.

ABOUT VODAFONE

Vodafone Group Plc is a leading mobile communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D.  - 25 per cent of the world's mobile phone users are connected to Vodafone. Vodafone has equity interests in 26 countries, and partner networks in a further 13 countries - leaving an unmatched network footprint. The company provides quality services to 2.5 million Australian customers, 1.6 million New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland.  customers and 114,000 Fijian customers. Vodafone has more than 133.4 million proportionate customers worldwide.

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 of the Vodafone Group. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trade marks of their respective owners.
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