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Ericsson, China Unicom sign managed services deal

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BEIJING, CHINA: Anhui Unicom, a provincial company of China Unicom, signed a three-year integrated field maintenance agreement with networking vendor Ericsson, making the latter its largest managed services partner in Anhui Province.

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Ericsson will take care of the maintenance work for base station sites, as well as fixed network and transmission.

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This is the largest managed services contract between the two till date.

Li Chao, GM, Anhui Unicom, says: “Anhui Unicom and Ericsson have been strategic partners for many years. We believe that Ericsson will extend its successful managed services business model and world-leading capabilities to Anhui and help us improve our network efficiency, lower operational cost, and fulfil our commitment to the consumers.”

Mats H Olsson, president, Ericsson China & North East Asia, says: “China represents the largest telecom and internet market in the world with some 800 million mobile subscribers and 420 million internet users. It also has the largest telecom infrastructure, with more than 320,000 3G base stations."

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