Nokia Wins Network Expansion Contract with China Mobile Group ZheJiang

Nokia announced that it has signed a GSM expansion contract with China Mobile Group ZheJiang in China. The contract, estimated at $43 million, will enhance ZheJiang's operational efficiency and extend GSM coverage in both urban and rural areas of the Zhejiang province.

As part of the contract, Nokia will supply its radio and core network, including the Nokia MSC Server mobile softswitch as well as an online Home Location Register subscriber database backup feature. Nokia will also supply its Nokia NetAct network and service management system, including Nokia NetAct Traffica. In addition, Nokia will provide ZheJiang with network planning, implementation, and integration services.

"It has been our great pleasure to work closely with ZheJiang over the past ten years and we are delighted to continue the cooperation. We are confident that Nokia's unique end-to-end solutions and professional services will enable ZheJiang to have a GSM network that meets the increasing need for coverage and capacity in the province and will be able to bear the traffic peak also during the festival season," said James Lin, Vice President, Networks, Nokia China. "We are pleased to support ZheJiang to reduce operating expenditure and offer their customers more reliable service due to our unique online database backup feature."

Nokia's online database backup feature provides real time backup of Home Location Register subscriber information, enhancing ZheJiang's network resiliency by improving subscriber data availability. The feature can be implemented with just a software upgrade to ZheJiang's existing Nokia HLR.