ZTE to deploy 4G LTE network for Aircel

SHENZHEN, CHINA: ZTE Corporation has entered into an agreement with the Indian telecom service provider Aircel to deploy its 4G LTE network. The deployment helps Aircel boost its enterprise and retail business.

In the first stage, the LTE deployment will be initiated in Chennai, Rest of Tamil Nadu (RoTN) and few other business critical circles. This announcement comes at a time when ZTE completes the migration of Aircel's data services to ZTE's 4G LTE evolved packet core for Chennai and ROTN circles.

Xu Dejun, CEO, ZTE India said: "This alliance has allowed ZTE to further cement our position as the partner of choice for telecom operators in the country in developing and maintaining their LTE ecosystem. This partnership also fits into our long term vision of developing sustainable LTE network in India. In the initial phase of our rollout, we aim to offer our customers with the highest data speed of 65 Mbps in the country."

Anupam Vasudev, CMO, Aircel, said: "We are happy to partner with ZTE for the deployment of our 4G LTE Networks in India. With this association, we are confident in delivering ‘next-generation' networks, critical to meet the growing demand of data in the country."

ZTE has enjoyed a long term relationship with Aircel since 2008 supporting the 2G-3G rollout in three circles of the north zone and played a key role in the launch of the Next Generation Networks (NGN) for Pan India. The EPC deployment in the south zones further strengthens the partnership and enables Aircel to provide high capacity and capability solutions with access agnostic functions for 2G, 3G and 4G LTE services.

ZTE offers a full range of LTE base stations, including widely distributed macro stations. It has won 65 contracts for LTE commercial application and has deployed test networks in cooperation with more than 140 operators across the globe.