Shanghai Unicom Completes Public EGPRS Demo in China

The Shanghai branch of China Unicom (Shanghai Unicom) announced yesterday a number of new mobile services at the Shanghai Unicom EGPRS Data Service Press Conference held in Shanghai. A range of data services based on Nokia's EGPRS solution, including Near Field Communication (NFC), push email, vCard, and WAP browsing, were demonstrated at the event. It marks China Unicom's first public EGPRS service demonstration.

EGPRS is a form of Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) which enables data connections at a speed up to 474 kbps.

"EGPRS will bring new and exciting, high quality services to end-users, in particular higher bandwidth services," said Zhang Jian, General Manager, Shanghai Unicom. "With Nokia's advanced EGPRS solutions and the optimization experience of both companies, we can also bring higher capacity to the network, better utilize our network resources, and reduce operation costs."

"We are delighted that Shanghai Unicom has chosen Nokia's EGPRS solution for the public demonstration. As the world's leading EGPRS solution provider, Nokia is strongly committed to state-of-the-art technologies to help operators increase operating revenue and ARPU," said David Ho, Senior Vice President, Networks, Nokia China. "We are also glad to see the expansion of our successful cooperation with China Unicom through the support of their GSM network evolution."

Posted to the site on 23rd November 2006