Network Infrastructure

Motorola opens European customer demo and interop centre

Demos HSPDA to interested customers

Motorola today announced the opening of the EMEA Motorola Innovation Centre in its facility in Swindon, in the UK.  This new centre is the latest in a series of Motorola initiatives designed to

Omnitel uses Nokia core network to make Lithuania's first 3G call

Lithuania's acting president H. E. Arturas Paulauskas made the country's first 3G call over Omnitel's trial network on May 1st.  The call was made using a 3G core network supplied by Nokia as part of a six-month trial

Omnitel launches Motorola UMTS Trial System on the day Lithuania joins the European Union

Motorola, Inc. has announced the launch of a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) trial in conjunction with Omnitel, the largest wireless network operator in the Baltic States.  The trial launched on 1 May, the day Lithuania joined the

VIPnet enters 3G by launching EDGE technology

Telekom Austria today announced the launch of its EDGE network through its Croatian mobile subsidiary VIPnet. The Croatian mobile provider is integrating EDGE technology into its network accelerating the transition from GSM to the third mobile generation. Thus,

Alcatel gets Russain job

$50 million frame agreement with MTS

Alcatel today announced the signature of a USD 50 million frame agreement with Mobile TeleSystems, the leading mobile operator in Eastern Europe, for the deployment of MTS' networks in 11 regions in

Nokia will deliver network equipment to VimpelCom in deal worth at least USD 60 million in 2004

Deal is extension of the framework agreement between Nokia and VimpelCom

Under an extension of an existing framework agreement with VimpelCom, Nokia will supply GSM/GPRS equipment for the implementation and development of the Bee Line GSM network

Zao Smarts taps Siemens for network delivery

Fourth largest Russian operator places €30 million order

ZAO SMARTS, the fourth largest mobile provider in Russia, has commissioned Siemens Information and Communication Mobile (Siemens mobile) to deliver telecommunications equipment worth 30 million Euro. The order encompasses delivery,

Nortel brings its CDMA2000 1X to Europe

Announces Latvian contract

Nortel Networks has been awarded a supply agreement by Telekom Baltija to deploy a CDMA2000 1X network for Latvia. Deployment of the network, which will operate in the 450 MHz radio spectrum, is already underway.