China's Huawei Technologies has made a success in the soft launch of a pre-commercial WCDMA network in Malaysia on behalf of Telekom Malaysia. Huawei-Telekom 3G pilot network covers the city center of Kuala Lumpur, including the renowned Petronas Twin Tower and KL Tower. A variety of commercial 3G handsets can be supported in the network. This soft launch is just the beginning of cooperation between Telekom Malaysia and Huawei. In the near future, Huawei will be working closely with Telekom Malaysia on the R&D, business plan, as well as the provisioning of attractive and lucrative 3G applications & services.
"We strongly believe TMB's 3G WCDMA pilot network will become another success story to highlight Huawei's win-win commitment with our global partners, " Dr. Alexander Liu, vice president of Huawei Asia Pacific Operation, said in his opening speech at the soft launch ceremony. Following the welcome speech, Mr. Omar Zaki, CEO & Project Director of TM 3G Group, highly commended Huawei for its quickness of network deployment and success of the first 3G phone call that ensued, and its capacity of providing a wide range of mobile data services."
Posted to the site on 23rd October 2003
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