STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson announced a contract valued at about $100 million with China’s Sichuan Mobile Communications Co. to expand its Global System for Mobile communications network in the Sichuan province.
Under terms of the contract, Ericsson will expand the carrier’s network capacity from about 600,000 users to more than 1.4 million, using GSM system hardware and software delivered by Ericsson’s Chinese joint-venture company Nanjing Ericsson Communications Co. Ltd.