Articles tagged with: Capex and Siemens
Globe Telecom Secures $50 Million Canadian Loan
The Philippines based mobile network operator, Globe Telecom has signed a US$50 million loan facility with Canada's Export Development agency. In a brief statement to the local stock exchange, the company said that the loan would be used to fund capital expenditure purchases from Nokia Siemens Networks. more
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Five Firms Win Multi-Billion Dollar Chinese 3G Tender
Huawei, Motorola and Ericsson are reported to have been the biggest winners in the latest WCDMA infrastructure tender from China Unicom, industry sources have told the South China Morning Post. The firm believed to have issued a tender to cover 55 cities in 30 provinces - the first stage in a rollout to cover 282 cities with a total capex of around US$11 billion during 2009. more
Related Tags: m1, nokia, motorola, china-unicom, wcdma, huawei, zte, china-mobile, alcatel-lucent, cdma, ericsson
Doubling the GSM Voice Capacity with Standard Handsets
For the first time in the world, four calls have been carried in one GSM radio timeslot. This significant step in GSM evolution path was taken today by Nokia Siemens Networks who successfully completed a drive test for the Orthogonal Sub Channel (OSC), that doubles the voice capacity of GSM radio network. more
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Tunisian Operator Upgrades GPRS Core Network
Tunisian mobile operator, Tunisiana has modernized its GPRS core network following an upgrade contract which was awarded to Nokia Siemens Networks. The company installed its Flexi ISN, which performs GPRS Gateway Service Node (GGSN) and data charging functionalities, and is fully integrated with the existing Nokia Siemens Networks charge@once prepaid solution to enable flexible charging of data services. more
Related Tags: intel, mms, core-network, vas, orascom-telecom, nokia-siemens-networks, ben, gprs, tunisiana, opex, nokia-siemens, orascom, wap, Tunisia
Huawei's Mobile Infrastructure Star Is Rising as Alcatel-Lucent’s Declines
Ericsson leads the worldÃ's mobile infrastructure market, but it faces stiff competition from Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent as well as from some Asian vendors, especially a buoyant Huawei. more
Related Tags: huawei, abi-research, alcatel-lucent, verizon-wireless, ericsson, verizon, cdma, nokia-siemens-networks, sprint, ev-do
Egyptian Network Launches 3G Coverage in Cairo
The Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil) has launched its 3G network following several delays, which the company partially put at the door of the telecoms regulator. The company had expected to receive access to the radio spectrum on 17th January, but the radio frequencies were not released until March 27th. The company had hoped to launch its network in July, but again missed its deadline. more
Related Tags: base-station, motorola, cisco, rsa, huawei, france-telecom, ericsson, edge, mobinil, orascom-telecom, cisco-systems, base-stations, alcatel-lucent, egyptian-company-for-mobile-services, alcatel, orascom, cairo, Egypt
Landline Improvement Spending Reaches Levels Not Seen Since 2000
..tructure have not approached this level since the year 2000. The largest increases in capex spend was on optical transport and routers, followed distantly by IP voice equipment (such as media gateways and softswitches), and carrier Ethernet swi more
Related Tags: ethernet, cisco, huawei, alcatel-lucent, nortel, dell
