Vodafone picks Huawei for 3G equipment in Turkey
Posted by meb at December 13th, 2008
Vodafone has picked China’s Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) to supply infrastructure equipment for the global mobile phone operator’s planned third-generation (3G) network in Turkey, a senior executive said on Friday.
Vodafone, Turkcell and Avea, the three GSM operators in Turkey, each won high-speed 3G mobile phone network licenses after the tender held on Nov. 28. Vodafone won the tender for the Type B (35 MHz) license, paying 250 million euros for its 3G contract. The Type A (40 MHz) license went to Turkcell while Avea got the Type C (30 MHz) license.
“We signed a five-year agreement with Huawei, which we believe will offer the best technical solution for 3G,” Ian Gray, head of Vodafone Turkey, said in a statement. Mobile phone operators are keen to get 3G, already delayed several times, up and running quickly to take advantage of fast-growing demand for wireless data and voice services.
source: Today’s Zaman
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