Huawei forays in African market

BANGALORE: Huawei Technologies has announced that MTN (Mobile

TelephoneNetworks) International, one of the largest cross-national mobile

operators in southern Africa has selected it’s GSM Base Station Sub-System

(BSS) to support its GSM expansion project for MTN Uganda.

As part of the agreement, Huawei will supply a Base Station Controller, 50

Base Transceiver Stations, and 235 TRXs (Transceiver) for GSM infrastructure

upgrades for MTN Uganda. Its completion will enable MTN's network to seamlessly

cover Uganda and will vastly boost the subscriber capacity.

"This association with MTN, a leading operator in the mobile segment, is

in line with our global strategy of working with leading players in the telecom

segment", said Huawei Technologies, India COO, Lu Ke. "Huawei's world-

class solutions are designed to address the complex and evolving needs of

telecom operators across the globe by providing them with easy to deploy and

reliable solutions to build high quality networks quickly and

cost-effectively."

Huawei's GSM BSC has been designed to support smooth migration from GSM to

GPRS and its BTS (Base Transceiver Station) allows a cost effective migration

path towards the new data dimension.