Monday, 6 November 2006

Nokia Wins GPRS Expansion Contract from Chinese Mobile Company

Nokia, a mobile devices and mobile network equipment maker, has signed a contract with a Chinese mobile maker company to expand China's Guangdong MCC GPRS network, but gave no financial details. Nokia said it will provide its intelligent GPRS packet core solution for the 8th GPRS expansion of Guangdong MCC and will thus become the GPRS network provider in the province.

Under the contract, Nokia will supply Guangdong MCC with its complete Nokia GPRS packet core solution, consisting of Nokia Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), Nokia Flexi Intelligent Service Node, and the Nokia Charging Gateway. The solution supports the content charging functionality, and provides an easy migration path to Nokia Combi SGSN as the 3G-access support capability can be achieved with simple memory and interface upgrades. The network will be supported by Nokia NetAct network and service management system, including Nokia NetAct Traffica. Nokia will also provide network planning, implementation, and integration services. Deliveries have started and the network will be serving more than 11 million data subscribers in the Eastern Guangdong province, expanded from Shenzhen to include DongGuan and Huizhou, in December 2006, the company noted.

Further, Nokia's collaboration with Guangdong MCC started in 2001 when Nokia provided Guangdong Mobile Communications with its WAP and GPRS equipments. Nokia leads the 3GPP compliant mobile softswitch market in China and is a leading GSM network supplier in the Chinese market with over 20 provincial customers, the company claimed.