Huawei Wins Spanish 3G Contract from Vodafone

Huawei says that it has been awarded a High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) network expansion contract by Vodafone that will serve all the seven major cities in Spain, including Barcelona and Madrid.

This HSPA expansion contract follows the successful deployment of Huawei's first contract with Vodafone Spain, signed in August 2006. With this contract, Huawei has greatly increased its market share with Vodafone Spain as well as become its major HSPA mobile network partner. Under the HSPA agreement, Huawei has supplied Vodafone Spain with its Distributed Node Bs. The Node Bs' Remote Radio Unit (RRU), with an output power of 40W, can be installed directly on masts, decreasing power loss and increasing network coverage and performance.

Since the deployment the first phase of the HSPA project, a subscriber survey by Vodafone has indicated improved network performance.

"Huawei's dedication and commitment to expanding the network ensured Huawei achieved an excellent deployment pace that helped fulfill Vodafone's business objectives last year" said Jaime Bustillo, CTO of Vodafone Spain. "I'm sure that the expansion project will enable us to achieve further successes together and we look forward to continuing this partnership with Huawei."

Posted to the site on 27th June 2007