Telenor Denmark contracts Huawei for mobile backhaul
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telenor Denmark has signed a contract with Chinese telecoms equipment vendor Huawei Technologies for the rollout of a mobile backhaul commercial network. Telenor would be able to smoothly modernize the network to Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology after the deployment of the IEEE 1588v2 standard.
According to Lars Rude Andersen, CTO of Telenor Denmark, the company is glad to work with Huawei in the Mobile Backhaul field and it is confident that Huawei’s advanced PTN solution will enable the customer to enjoy faster and higher quality mobile services from Telenor.
Telenor entered the Danish market with the acquisition of a 53.5% stake in Sonofon in 2000, purchasing the remaining shares from US-based BellSouth in December 2003.
Liquid Telecom plans new southern African fibre network
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A plan to build an international and national fibre-optic transmission network has been revealed by Liquid Telecom, a majority-owned subsidiary of Zimbabwean cellco Econet Wireless. The company’s aim include building its own links to international submarine fibre-optic cables and a 7,500km domestic fibre networks linking all major cities.
Besides, the Liquid telecom also aims to build fibre networks in Harare and Bulawayo; and proposed metro networks in two other southern African countries. Huawei Technologies of China is building the network infrastructure.
According to Liquid’s CEO Nic Rudnick, most of the traffic on the network would be Econet’s initially, but that third-party traffic could account for the majority in due course.
Qatar Telecom & Huawei sign group-wide framework agreement
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A group- wide framework agreement has been signed between Qatar Telecom (Qtel) and China’s Huawei Technologies. Qtel’s long-term development strategy across international markets has been supported by the deal in which Huawei is required to provide mobile radio infrastructure including its ‘Single RAN’ base stations alongside circuit switch and packet switch core and transmission systems besides providing solutions and services.
Standard terms and volume-based discounted pricing for network equipment will be available to Qtel group companies under the agreement. The initial term of the deal is one year and can be extended at Qtel’s discretion for up to two additional years.
Huawei contracted by GlobeNet to build DWDM link
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: For the deployment of an international fibre link between North and South America, Chinese equipment provider Huawei Technologies has been hired by US-based backbone operator GlobeNet.
Huawei’s upgradeable NG-DWDM platform will be used by GlobeNet to connect its cable landing station in southern New Jersey including New York, Brazil, Venezuela, Bermuda, Florida and beyond.
OSN 6800 NG-DWDM OTN optical platform hardware will be provided by Huawei and it will also upgrade the software of GlobeNet’s existing iManager T2000 Network Management System (NMS). 10Gbps, 40Gbps, and future 100Gbps wavelengths will be supported by the network solution to competitively deliver advanced, high bandwidth services.
Motorola’s biggest division auction put on hold
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: After the lower-than-expected bids for the company’s biggest division, Motorola is reconsidering its latest breakup plan by putting the auction of its home and networks mobility unit on hold.
USD 4 billion to USD 5 billion had been expected by the company but the bids have fallen in the range of USD 3 billion to USD 4 billion. So far two telecommunications firms- Huawei Technologies and Arris Group- have made first-round bids for the home and networks mobility unit.
Huawei’s bid might encounter political opposition for reasons like Chinese government gaining access to sensitive US telecommunications infrastructure. While Arris, due to its smaller size, would likely have to team up with a private-equity firm to win the auction.
Skylink finally outlines GSM launch
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: SkyLink, a Russian cellco, which previously operated exclusively across CDMA-based networks, finally outlined its plans to deploy the 2G standard. The decision is taken after more than two years when the company secured licences allowing it to roll out GSM-based networks.
Even after winning concessions covering 45 of Russia’s 83 regions in late-2007, the company is yet to deploy GSM in these areas. This had risked the company of losing its license after the country’s communications watchdog claimed that it has failed to fulfill its license conditions.
Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei Technologies have been hired by Skyline to provide equipment and services for the rollout, giving the company some chance of achieving its target of installing GSM networks across most of Russia’s regions by 2011.
According to SkyLink deputy CEO, Yuri Khromov, the partnership with Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent is done to ensure that the new GSM base stations can easily be upgraded to 4G technology, in preparation for the time when Russia’s Communications Ministry gives approval for the next evolution of mobile broadband technology.
Huawei to deploy LTE network for Tele2 and Telenor Sweden
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: For the supply and deployment of network equipment and modems for the launch of so-called ’4G’ Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband services, Net4Mobility, a joint venture of Tele2 Sweden and the Swedish unit of Norway’s Telenor has contracted Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies.
The goal of the venture is to make LTE available to 99% of the Swedish population by the end of 2013. 30%-50% increase in 2G GSM voice traffic, with enhanced indoor and outdoor coverage across the country as a result is also the reason behind increasing the number of base stations.
Earlier, LTE data services were commercially launched in Stockholm by TeliaSonera Sweden.
Mobitel carries out HSPA+ tests successfully
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Successful tests of HSPA+ technology with the capability to deliver downlink speeds of up to 28Mbps was completed by Sri Lankan mobile operator Mobitel, a subsidiary of wireline incumbent Sri Lanka
Telecom.
Installation of Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology which effectively uses multiple antennas in both the handset helped to achieve the speed. Besides, HSPA network is also used, that splits the radio signal into multiple streams, providing an ideal platform to offer faster mobile broadband access and enhanced data-based services.
Mobital carried out the tests of HSPA+ in partnership with China’s Huawei Technologies. Commercial 3.5G network services under the ‘M3′ banner was launched by Mobitel in December 2007 based on HSDPA/HSUPA technology, enabling maximum theoretical speeds of 14.4Mbps (downlink) and 2Mbps (uplink).
Local vendors lose out again as eMobile signs Huawei
The rollout of Japan’s newest W-CDMA nationwide mobile network by eMobile, the new mobile subsidiary of leading DSL wholesaler eAccess Ltd, is gathering pace and causing not a few surprises and disappointments among vendors.
eMobile announced late in July that it had selected Huawei Technologies from 15 global vendors as a second prime network vendor to work alongside Ericsson, which in March was awarded the contract for the nationwide core network and the 1.7-GHz radio network in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.
Huawei will start by deploying networks in Sapporo and Sendai. This is the first contract for Huawei or any Chinese network vendor in Japan, and it means that Japanese vendors have completely lost out on this pioneering 3.5G network business worth $3 billion to $4 billion. “The choice of Huawei was an extraordinary shock to Japanese vendors,” eMobile and eAccess CEO Dr Sachio Semmoto told Wireless Asia.
Japanese vendors are not the only shocked and disappointed vendors. Lucent Technologies was passed over yet again. One year ago Lucent appeared to be in pole position with eAccess after working on apparently successful trials combining HSDPA and Lucent’s IMS. Lucent was presented as eAccess’ partner in several high profile PR social and events.
Among the reasons cited for the selection of Huawei by eAccess are its strong product development skills, quality management systems in IP technology and small base stations.
eAccess has done an impressive job of fundraising for the new venture. eMobile now has equity and debt financing totaling 363 billion yen ($3.16 billion). The companies are planning to offer seamless IP-based fixed and mobile services with data services starting in March 2007 and voice services following in Spring 2008.
Putting up a state-of-the-art nationwide mobile network, of course, is costly and eAccess will struggle to reach the 85% coverage required by the government within five years under its present business-financing plan, even though the network will be IP-based.
NTT DoCoMo spent $20 billion on its W-CDMA network and Vodafone Japan around $10 billion on its latest network. From this perspective, it is easy to understand the decision to partner with Huawei, which has risen quickly by combining advanced technology with low prices.
eMobile’s ambitious strategy contrasts sharply with IP Mobile, Japan’s other mobile start-up, which announced that it has secured just over 4 billion yen to build its network. Non-Japanese vendors have also secured a significant part of the contracts so far awarded by IP Mobile.
Source- http://www.telecomasia.net.
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