RPT-Nokia Siemens not keen on BSNL deal in India -CEO

(Repeats story issued late on Tuesday)

AMSTERDAM, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Nokia Siemens Networks [NSN.UL] is not keen on an order for 23 million GSM lines from India's state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), the network gear group's head said on Tuesday.

BSNL has said Nokia Siemens was the second-lowest bidder in the tender and rules say the Indian operator must order 40 percent of the tender, or 10 million lines, from the second-lowest bidder if it is willing to match the lowest bidder's price.

"We have been in discussions with BSNL, and based on the terms and conditions that were there, we're not interested," Nokia Siemens Chief Executive Simon Beresford-Wylie said at the company's capital markets day event in Amsterdam.

Ericsson offered the lowest bid of about $91 a line and accepted an order for 13.1 million lines worth about $1.3 billion in September.

BSNL said in November Nokia Siemens bid $171 a line and has missed a deadline to respond to the order, which means BSNL would consider awarding it to other firms like Ericsson (ERICb.ST: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Nortel (NT.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)

(Reporting by Niclas Mika and Tarmo Virki, Writing by Sami Torma)

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