Egypt to Get CDMA Based Fixed Wireless Network

Telecom Egypt and the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology have signed a five-year frame agreement with Nortel Networks, estimated at approximately US$60 million - for expansion and modernization of Egypt's national telecommunications infrastructure.

Key elements of this network expansion are expected to include Nortel Networks Univity CDMA2000 1X Wireless Data Network solutions, Nortel Networks Succession Communication Server 2000 superclass softswitches, and Nortel Networks DMS circuit switches. Telecom Egypt expects to deploy Univity CDMA2000 1X solutions to offer fixed wireless services.

With Succession Communication Server 2000 superclass softswitches and DMS-100 local switching systems, Telecom Egypt will be positioned to migrate to voice over packet technology at its own pace. Voice over packet enables voice traffic to be broken down into smaller pieces and sent as data packets, allowing carriers to operate more cost-effectively and efficiently by using a common packet network to carry voice, data and video traffic. In addition, it will allow Telecom Egypt to offer new, revenue-generating multimedia services in the future.

Telecom Egypt was established in 1918 as the Egyptian Telegraph and Telephone Administrator, and is also expected to launch a GSM mobile network. A tender to supply a turnkey GSM network expires next Tuesday."

Posted to the site on 21st March 2003