Orange Romania in an announcement revealed that it has made an investment of $280 million in 2008, including the $6.99 Million it spend on the network expansion. The operator has spent nearly $2.23 billion uptil now for the development of its operations in the country.
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Orange Romania invests $280Mn in 2008
- December 23rd, 2008
- 12:55 pm
VivaCell inks network expansion deal worth $25Mn with Intracom Telecom (Brazil)
- December 16th, 2008
- 12:44 pm
VivaCell selects Intracom Telecom for a $25 million network expansion deal for its 2.5G mobile network in Armenia. Under the deal, Intracom is provided to supply infrastructure works, installation and integration services in cooperation with Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent which will be the main equipment vendor. In a statement Intracom said the project is designed to allow VivaCell, the country’s leading mobile operator by subscribers, to expand the access capacity of its GSM/GPRS network. The expansion is expected to be completed by 31 March’09.
Verizon Wireless expands wireless network to Harrison and Taylor Counties in West Virginia
- December 9th, 2008
- 9:49 am
Verizon Wireless has extended its wireless network to portions of Harrison and Taylor counties in West Virginia, giving its customers in the area direct access to the nation’s most reliable wireless network.
The new network coverage comprises the West Virginia towns of Clarksburg, Bridgeport, Enterprise, Grafton, Lost Creek, Maken, Pruntytown, Salem and Stonewood.
It also includes:
- The area east along U.S. Route 50 from Salem to Grafton;
- The area north along U.S. Route 19 from Clarksburg to the town of Enterprise;
- The area south along Interstate 79 from the Marion County line through Harrison County to the Lewis County line;
- Meadowbrook Mall;
- Newpointe Shopping Center
By investing more than $13 million in this network expansion, Verizon Wireless is enabling its customers living in and visiting the area to enjoy clearer reception and fewer dropped calls.
“This network enhancement reflects our ongoing commitment to meet the growing needs of our customers and to provide them with the reliable, high quality services they expect from Verizon Wireless,” said Roger Tang, president-Ohio/Pennsylvania/West Virginia Region, Verizon Wireless. “Wireless consumers today understand that value is not defined by price alone. A major reason our customers choose Verizon Wireless and stay with us is because we offer the nation’s most reliable network. And now, we offer that reliability directly to residents in Clarksburg and neighboring towns.”
The expanded service is part of Verizon Wireless’ continual effort to improve coverage and capacity, and enhance the quality of its wireless voice and data network in West Virginia and throughout the country. Verizon Wireless has invested more than $48 billion since it was formed–$5.5 billion on average every year–to increase the coverage and capacity of its national network and to add new services.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, serving 70.8 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 70,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications.
For more information, please visit, www.verizonwireless.com or www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.
ZTE grabs CMPak’s $100Mn network expansion contract (China, Pakistan)
- December 5th, 2008
- 5:49 am
ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, added another significant customer win to its growing list of service providers deploying its GSM solution. The company today announced the signing of a US$100 million contract with China Mobile’s Pakistan subsidiary (CMPak) to help them expand the capacity of their GSM infrastructure as part of its Phase 2 project.
The project covers central Pakistan, where the highest GDP in the country is produced and more than half of the country’s population resides, hence becoming the main source of most operators’ voice data service profits. The central Pakistan territory comprises of eight cities and regions, including Multan, Faisalabad and Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city.
Under the GSM infrastructure extension project, ZTE will provide CMPak with its latest 8000 series of base stations using a unified total IP hardware platform. The solution allows operators to smoothly evolve their telecom infrastructure into total IP integrated mobile broadband networks helping them reduce network evolution cost, lower their TCO, and continuously enhance their profitability.
CMPak will specifically deploy ZTE’s M8206 base station for its GSM expansion project, a solution that adopts industry-leading modular design. An M8206’s single module only weighs 20kg with a size of a 15-inch notebook and can be easily installed by only one technical expert. It allows operators to flexibly accommodate additional carrier frequencies from two to 12 depending on their network environment. It also features other key advantages, including low power consumption, quick installation, easy maintenance and extension, as well as rapid network evolution.
“With this significant contract deal with CMPak, ZTE again proves its cutting-edge technology in the industry and strengthens its partnership with CMPak as its preferred and No.1 telecom equipment supplier. At the same time, ZTE has been sharing China Mobile’s success in the overseas market which further shows the substantial mark that Chinese telecom players are achieving in the global telecom arena,” said Zhang Liang, CEO of ZTE Pakistan. “Such a model of cooperation creates win-win situation and valuable opportunities to both parties. We look forward to further strengthening our cooperation with CMPak in the near future.”
ZTE’s GSM equipment is now deployed by over 60 operators in more than 50 countries worldwide, resulting in the installation of mobile capacity exceeding 200 million lines. From 2003 to 2007, ZTE’s global GSM market share had increased more than 100%. The exceptional performance is attributed to the continuous robustness and expansion of the international GSM market, which the company took advantage of by launching several GSM product marketing campaigns in Asia Pacific. The strategy paid off allowing ZTE to win a number of multi-million deals, especially for its service products.
Currently, the company has applied for over 3,000 GSM patents and is a pioneering member of many international standards organizations such as ETSI, 3GPP and GSA. ZTE ranks among the leading GSM equipment providers in the world, partnering with industry-leading operators including China Mobile, China Unicom, Reliance, Etisalat, Telenor, Hutchison, among others.
About ZTE
ZTE is a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions. The ZTE product range is the most complete in the world – covering virtually every sector of the wireline, wireless, service and terminals markets. The company delivers innovative, custom-made products and services to over 500 operators in more than 140 countries, helping them to achieve continued revenue growth and to shape the future of the world’s communications. ZTE commits around 10% of annual turnover to research and development and takes a leading role in a wide range of international bodies developing emerging telecoms standards. It is the fastest growing telecoms equipment company in the world, and is China’s only listed telecoms manufacturer, with shares publicly traded on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. In the Asian Wall Street Journal’s Readers’ Survey 2007, ZTE was among the ‘Top 10 Most Admired Companies in China’, the only company that was included in the Top 10 list representing the telecom industry. ZTE was awarded the “Most Promising Vendor of the Year” by Frost & Sullivan in its 2007 Asia Pacific ICT Awards, and was reported as the fastest growing telecom equipment and solutions provider among the major telecom vendors worldwide by IDC in 2007. ZTE was included in BusinessWeek’s 2006 ranking of China’s Top 20 Brands. For more information, please visit www.zte.com.cn.
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They have been associated with more than 225 mobile operators globally to set their Pricing/ Tariff Strategies, Go-To-Market Strategies for Mobile Advertising, Mobile Payments, Cutting VAS among others amongst 59 countries globally.
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MobiFone inks expansion contract with Alcatel-Lucent (Vietnam)
- November 26th, 2008
- 12:21 pm
MobiFone inks an expansion contract with Alcatel-Lucent worth $48 million. Under the contract Alca-Lu will expand the Vietnamese operator’s network capacity to northern Vietnam. he vendor will provide full turn-key services for the implementation of the upgrade, scheduled for completion by the end of the Q1′09. The services include project management, installation and deployment as well as radio network engineering services.
Mobile operators in Paraguay billed $455mn in the period of Jan-Sept
- November 18th, 2008
- 6:42 am
Mobile service operators in Paraguay have billed $455mn in first nine months of 2008, a rise of 15% since last year. The rising sales were driven by heavy investment for network expansion and upgradation by the operators.
With the end of June’08, the number of mobile phone lines reached 5.45mn mobile lines, up by 16% since last year, with nearly 757,486 new new mobile lines activated in the country in H1′08.
Zain plans network expansion in Africa and Middle East
- November 7th, 2008
- 8:24 am
Accoring to Zain CEO Saad Al Barrak, the company is looking to expand its network in Africa and Middle East by making nearly five acquisitions by 2010, worth US$4 billion.
“We are focusing now on our priority in the Middle East and Africa, where we want to become the absolute number one,” he said.
Zain, which operates in 22 countries plans to expand its roots further to six African nations Cote D’Ivoire, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe and Yemen and Syria in the Middle East.
Al Barrak, looking at the global financial crunches, says that Zain will either buy majority stakes or acquire licences.
Al Barrak additionally said that Zain also plans to spend $2.5 billion in 2009 on network upgradation and investments.
Lebanese government intends to enhance network and lower tariffs (Lebanon)
- October 31st, 2008
- 5:46 am
The Lebanese telecom ministry seeks to increase the capacity of the two state-owned operators by 80% in order to have better quality of service without any congestion and enhanced value of networks ahead of their planned privatisations.
Roger Najar, the head of the cellular supervisory board reports that the work has already begun on the project. Out of the two operators, Alfa already has appointed Ericsson for network upgradation.
The Telecom Minister, Gebran Bassilhas planned to upgrade the network capacity and lower mobile tariffs.
Ericsson bags Axis’ network expansion contract (Indonesia)
- October 30th, 2008
- 5:42 am
The Indonesian operator Axis, awards Ericsson a contract to expand its GSM/EDGE and W-CDMA radio access network, including 2,100 sites, in Jakarta and Banten in western Java, as well as on Sumatra.
Vivo seeks loan of $187 million for network expansion (Brazil)
- October 16th, 2008
- 11:57 am
Vivo, the Brazilian mobile operator seeks a financial assistance of up to BRL389 million (USD187 million) from the government owned bank BNB. THe loan taken will reportedly be given by BNB’s northeastern financing fund FNE-Proinfra. Vivo will utilize the loan for the expansion of it’s coverage in Bahia, Sergipe, and Maranhao. It’ll further deplo it’s networks to Piaui, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, Pernambuco and Alagoas.
