Chinese hardware vendor ZTE and Malaysian wireless broadband provider Packet One Networks (P1) have entered into a $28 million contract that will see the former plan, design and deploy Wi-Max equipment for the second phase of P1’s Wi-Max rollout plans

Chinese hardware vendor ZTE and Malaysian wireless broadband provider Packet One Networks (P1) have entered into a $28 million contract that will see the former plan, design and deploy Wi-Max equipment for the second phase of P1’s Wi-Max rollout plans. The second phase will run alongside the first, for which P1 has signed an agreement with France’s Alcatel-Lucent. P1 expects to deploy approximately 700 new Wi-Max base stations by the end of 2009.

ZTE’s deployment will focus on the rural regions and the states along the east coast and in Penang. P1 will spend around $274.3 million to support network rollout over the next five years.