P.M. BRIEFING : Japanese Firm Beats Out AT&T; for $64-Million Brazil Contract
Japan’s NEC Corp. has won a $64-million order from Brazil’s public telecommunications company, beating AT&T; in its own back yard.
NEC will set up a public mobile communications system in Rio de Janeiro, building about 30 stations for the system from mid-1990 to early 1991.
It will also supply about 10,000 hand-held, portable and car telephones, an NEC spokesman said today.
NEC aims to win contracts to set up similar systems in other big Brazilian cities, he said.
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Northern Telecom Ltd. of Canada also bid for the Rio order.
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