www.WirelessFederation.com/news: In a multimillion dollar contract, Bridgewater Systems will provide both the Home Subscriber Server and the Policy Controller to 4G LTE network of MetroPCS to be launched in the second half of 2010.
Bridgewater will be deployed as a repository for subscriber and device profile and state information and to manage subscriber identities, authentication, authorization, service profiles, and quality of service in real time.

Besides, MetroPCS, a provider of flat-rate, prepay mobile services will also use Bridgewater’s Policy Controller to perform the policy charging rule function (PCRF) compliant with 3GPP Release 8.

Bridgewater’s full compliance with 3GPP Release 8, feature functionality and its current deployment of Service Controller for authentication, authorization and accounting in MetroPCS’ 1xRTT network helped it to win the competitive bidding process.

According to Joanne Sternberg, director of marketing communications at Bridgewater, the contract is significant for the company as its first major LTE deployment and that Bridgewater has more trials currently underway in Asia Pac, North America and the CALA regions.