Huawei Wins Egyptian Network Contract

Egypt's Mobinil has awarded a contract to China's Huawei for mobile softswitches for its core network. Mobinil has been joining efforts with Huawei since 2005, where they started to work on Soft switch trials in Egypt and finished the first call on this trial mobile network during this period. Mobinil signed the commercial contract with Huawei in 2006 to expand the network capacity to include more than additional five million customers.

"The modernization of our network, is part of our relentless efforts for improving customer satisfaction and enhancing the competitiveness of network performance. Huawei is meeting our sophisticated requirements, its advanced solutions provide a perfect integration of advanced technology and market demands", commented Alex Shalaby, president and CEO, Mobinil.

No financial details were provided.

Posted to the site on 5th September 2007