Comtech Communications Corp. said its subsidiary Comtech EF Data Corp. has been awarded a $2.8 million contract to provide satellite communications equipment to an unnamed CMDA network operator in India.

Comtech said that its data and RF equipment will augment a SCPC VSAT network allowing voice and data connectivity. The equipment is being deployed in conjunction with Hughes Escorts Communications Ltd., a subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems, and Eltel Systems Ltd.