Aircel, India’s No. 5 telecom operator has awarded Ericsson a contract to roll out a3G/HSPA network across six out of its total 13 circles. These six circles namely Tamil Nadu Bihar; Orissa; Jammu Kashmir; North East; and Assam serves more than 100 million subscribers and Ericsson will be Aircel’s largest partner for 3G implementation. Last week Aircel and Ericsson made the first successful 3G call in Chennai and Coimbatore.
Under the agreement with Aircel, Ericsson will provide core, radio and transmission network equipment as well as related services such as network rollout, network technology and consulting, radio network optimization and support services
.Sandip Das, CEO of Maxis says, “Ericsson and Maxis, have a long history of infrastructure partnership starting up from 2G through to 3G and possibly future technologies, across our subsidiaries and allied companies operating in Malaysia, India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. We respect them and look forward to their continued support to our group’s commitment to providing quality networks and advanced services to our customers”.
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