Telecom
VTN selects Alcatel-Lucent’s IP and optical solutions
Alcatel-Lucent has signed two contracts with Vietnam Telecom National (VTN), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications Corporation Group (VNPT), to help the operator transform its network. Alca-Lu said that it will provide its IP/MPLS solutions, including the 7750 Service Router(SR) and the 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM). the company believes its flexible IP/MPLS [...]
Vimicro acquires Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell’s ViSS business
Vimicro, a multimedia semiconductor and solution provider, has announced that Vimicro Tianjin, a joint venture company operated and managed by Vimicro, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Video Surveillance System (ViSS) from Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell (ASB). Vimicro Tianjin will acquire the complete ViSS business including all property, plant and equipment, inventories, business contracts, intellectual [...]
Hughes to provide satellite-based cellular backhaul services in Brazil
Hughes Network Systems, a player in broadband satellite networks and services, has announced that its Brazilian operating unit, Hughes do Brasil, has signed agreements with two Brazilian cellular operators to provide satellite backhaul services connecting remote cellular base transceiver stations (BTS) to their GSM networks. The two contracts call for providing turnkey managed services for [...]
Orange to acquire Unanimis
The Orange France Telecom Group has acquired 100 per cent of Unanimis, an exclusive digital advertising network in the UK. Unanimis has exclusive online advertising relationships with key website brands such as the AA, Ticketmaster, ASOS, Gumtree and Shopping.com. Orange believes together, Orange and Unanimis will have particular strength in the area of online advertising. [...]
China Telecom selects Alca-Lu for IP backbone
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a centralised purchasing contract with China Telecom, a telecom operator in China, to provide and maintain an IP/MPLS backbone across ten provinces (Guangxi, Hubei, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Gansu, Xinjiang and Shanghai). Upon completion in October, China Telecom hopes to deliver advanced broadband services with improved quality. The contract, which is [...]
Alca-Lu, Airtel appoint Soubelet as CEO of their JV
Alcatel-Lucent and Bharti Airtel have announced the appointment of Arnaud Soubelet as the CEO of their joint venture Alcatel-Lucent Network Management Services India (ALNMSI). The joint venture will manage Bharti Airtel’s pan India wireline broadband and telephone services. It will also support their transition to next generation networks (NGN) to offer advanced services like high-speed [...]
KDDI selects Motorola for LTE network in Japan
Motorola will help develop and implement KDDI’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, including RAN/base stations, in Japan. Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business will provide the optimal LTE solution to enable KDDI to offer high-speed mobile broadband services, such as video and social networking, to its customers across Japan. KDDI informed that it will deploy [...]
Huawei launches ‘first’ commercial LTE eNodeB
Huawei, a provider of next generation telecommunications network solutions, has launched, what is claimed to be, the world’s first LTE eNodeB ready for large-scale commercial deployment. The company has informed this LTE eNodeB is capable of fully supporting a downlink rate of up to 150 Mbps in commercial LTE networks. By adopting 64QAM (Quadrature Amplitude [...]
Ericsson announces agreement with Telefonica O2 UK
Ericsson will provide field maintenance and other services for the Telefonica O2 UK 2G and 3G networks. Under the new agreement, Ericsson will provide field maintenance services for radio and switch sites, spare parts management logistics support as well as optimisation and drive services and facilities engineering services for Telefonica O2 UK. Ericsson and Telefonica [...]
Sonera introduces 3G services in the 900 MHz frequency
Sonera has informed that it has accelerated its turbo 3G build-out programme by introducing mobile broadband services in the 900 MHz frequency. The company has informed that a significant part of the turbo 3G extension will be based on the 900 MHz frequency. In a lower-frequency network, an individual base station serves a larger coverage [...]
