Nokia Siemens Wins Serbian 3G Contract

Telenor Serbia has signed a frame contract with Nokia Siemens Networks to build a nationwide WCDMA radio network - with support for HSPA. Under the agreement, Nokia Siemens Networks will build a WCDMA network across Serbia within four years and it will provide Telenor with a broad range of supplementary services. The deliveries have already begun and the first parts of the new network will start operation in the first quarter of 2008.

"This contract will firmly establish Telenor as a leader in technology for this region. Our wish is to bring as many Serbian households as possible closer to the standards of modern and advanced societies," said Telenor CEO Stein-Erik Vellan.

"We are very pleased to expand and continue our good cooperation with Telenor in Serbia," said Finn Erik Hermansen from Nokia Siemens Networks. "We are fully prepared and committed to support Telenor in meeting the market needs to provide a state-of-the-art 3G mobile broadband solution with a network of high speed, capacity and quality."

Telenor Serbia ended the first half of this year with some 2.7 million subscribers, according to figures from the Mobile World analysts. They estimate that 28,000 of those were already connected to the existing 3G network.

Posted to the site on 14th December 2007