Improving Cellular Service in Tibet and Inner Mongolia

Lucent Technologies has been awarded two wireless network optimization contracts by Tibet Mobile and Inner Mongolia Unicom, provincial subsidiaries of China Mobile and China Unicom, respectively.

According to the contract with Tibet Mobile, Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) will deliver professional optimization services for its entire GSM network to improve network performance and increase customer satisfaction.

The other contract includes several network optimization projects for the CDMA network of Inner Mongolian Unicom. This agreement includes network optimization work that will improve and extend service for the majority of communities and businesses throughout the Inner Mongolian province.

"China has one of the largest and most advanced telecom networks in the world. Service operators in China are looking for ways to maximize value from their existing networks, which represents a tremendous market opportunity for our services group," said Jiadong Qu, chief of staff of Lucent China and vice president of Lucent Worldwide Service for China. "Lucent is committed to leveraging our unmatched expertise and Bell Labs capabilities to make our customers telecom networks more profitable, reliable and secure than they are today."

Posted to the site on 15th June 2005