Officials for Tyco Electronics M/A-COM last week told New York’s statewide wireless network advisory council that the company has remedied 17 of the 19 deficiencies identified by the state in the first phase of the network, a situation that has put the vendor’s $2 billion contract in jeopardy, reports Urgent Communications.

“We are very pleased to report that we have either completed or substantially completed our remediation efforts on all of the 19 items,” M/A-COM President Chuck Dougherty told the advisory council during last Tuesday’s meeting, the webcast of which is available at the SWN web site. “We are confident the system will meet the contractual requirements.”

On Aug. 29, New York CIO Melodie Mayberry-Stewart wrote a letter (pdf) declaring M/A-COM in default of its contract to build the statewide network, noting that July tests in the first buildout area—Erie County and Chautauqua County—demonstrated the system performance to be “unsatisfactory and unacceptable,” even though M/A-COM had certified the system as ready for testing.

M/A-COM was given a deadline of Oct. 16 to rectify these problems.

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