Nokia Wins Chinese Contract

Nokia is delivering a major GSM network expansion for China Unicom's Zhejiang Branch. The expansion will boost the operator's network capacity by 200,000 subscribers. The deal is part of a raft of recent contracts Nokia signed for the GSM network expansion and service of China Unicom's branches in seven Chinese provinces. Nokia has won contracts in these provinces worth more than US$48 million in total. Nokia was chosen as a main supplier for Zhejiang Unicom following the Shanghai Unicom deal announced in September 2003.

Under this agreement Nokia is supplying its mobile switching, radio-access network infrastructure, the Nokia NetAct network and service management system. Also included are implementation, radio network planning, hardware services, optimisation, training and care services.

"China Unicom is committed to offering its customers the most advanced mobile services and highest quality and that made Nokia the obvious choice for our Zhejiang Unicom GSM network expansion. We are very happy to see that the number of GSM subscribers in Zhejiang Province has doubled over the past two years," says Zhu Ping, General Manager, China Unicom Zhejiang Branch."

Posted to the site on 17th October 2003